2012/9/7 Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com>
-- You should protect the user from invalid program states, like the crash youdeliberately programmed in here.
+100500 :)
I've never understood the philosophy of intentionally crashing a programon your user. It's unkind and bad business.
Calling exit() will, I believe, prevent the standard crash reporting built into Android from doing its thing (since the code doesn't unwind to the default catch-all exception handler).
This will prevent the developer from finding out about any crashes that happen "in the field", thereby keeping the bugs in the app, forever and ever.
Reporting the crash stack in the logcat really doesn't do anything for end users -- not every one is expected to have a logcat reading app, to grant it appropriate permissions on 4.1 and higher, and to look there at the right time.
Now, one could say that turning a blind eye towards crashes in one's own code is an elegant way to save time and effort needed to fix bugs. See no evil...
-- K
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