What Is Android Anr?
Contents When the Ui Thread of an Android App Is Blocked for Too Long, an “Application Not Responding” (Anr) Error Is Triggered. If the App Is in the...
When the UI thread of an Android app is blocked for too long, an “Application Not Responding” (ANR) error is triggered. If the app is in the foreground, the system displays a dialog to the user, as shown in figure 1. The ANR dialog gives the user the opportunity to force quit the app.
What is the difference between ANR and crash in Android?
The difference between a crash and an ANR is that a crash is a code exception whereas an ANR is an ongoing state of nonresponsiveness. So when a crash happens, the app itself terminates. When an ANR happens, the user simply cannot do anything in the app and will eventually force quit it.
Where can I find ANR in Android?
A good way to try to detect the problem is by fetching the file /data/anr/traces. txt which is generated after a ANR happens on a device (beware that it is overridden after another ANR happens). That offers you a overview of what each thread was doing at the time of the ANR.
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