Hopbotnik is a drop-in library for logging errors to Hoptoad on Android 1.5+. It's intended for use in places where you want to log recoverable application errors as simply as possible. You could also use it to log uncaught exceptions app-wide that normally give Force Close dialog errors , but Google's Android Market crash-report logging and famed Log.wtf call works fairly well for that case.
Hopbotnik is based on socrata's hoptoad-notifier-java, which in turn is based on an older Google Code project just called "hoptoad". Most significantly, all external dependencies (log4j, hamcrest) have been removed, as have a lot of filtering/environment-reporting code that doesn't really apply to client applications, which lets the final JAR weigh in at just over 10KB. It also contains an Android unit-test project instead of standard Java tests (since I feel safer running tests against the actual VM that will be running my code).
To use Hopbotnik, create a HoptoadNotice with a HoptoadNoticeBuilder, passing it your Hoptoad API key, an exception or message to log, and an environment identifier string. Send the HoptoadNotice via a HoptoadNotifier's notify(notice) or notifyInBackground(notice) methods (notifyInBackground spins off a Thread to send the error report and is highly recommended over the plain notify call to keep your app responsive to users and to avoid Android giving the user "Application Not Responding" errors).
try {
doSomething();
} catch (JsonInitializationException e) {
HoptoadNotice notice = new HoptoadNoticeBuilder(HOPTOAD_KEY, e, "environment-name").newNotice();
new HoptoadNotifier().notifyInBackground(notice);
}
You'll also need to make sure your app has permission to access the Internet so it can send the notices to Hoptoad. if you don't already have it, you'll need this line in your app's AndroidManifest.xml file, under the <manifest> element:
Apache 2.0, like Luca Marrocco's original project. The original header license included in all source code:
Modified or written by Luca Marrocco for inclusion with hoptoad.
Copyright (c) 2009 Luca Marrocco.
Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License")
You may also want to consider ACRA, android-remote-stacktrace, and other ideas and notes in this StackOverflow post.