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Inspect FireCrasher's recovery level and show custom recovery UX (loading dialog, toast, snackbar) or force a specific recovery level. Use when tailoring what the user sees during recovery, or reacting differently to occasional vs. repeated crashes.

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Customize the recovery experience

FireCrasher escalates recovery through three RecoveryLevels:

  • RESTART_ACTIVITY — restart the crashing activity (occasional crash).
  • GO_BACK — the activity keeps crashing, so go back to the previous screen.
  • RELAUNCH_APP — nothing to go back to, so restart the whole app.

You can read the level before recovering and show appropriate UX, or force a level.

React to the recovery level

Inside onCrash, the evaluated level and the current activity are already in scope. Call recover { … }; its lambda runs after recovery is kicked off.

installFireCrasher {
    onCrash {
        report(throwable)   // see report-crashes skill

        val context = activity ?: return@onCrash
        when (level) {
            RecoveryLevel.RESTART_ACTIVITY ->
                // Quiet restart of the current screen — show a brief spinner.
                recover {
                    Toast.makeText(context, "Recovering…", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show()
                }
            RecoveryLevel.GO_BACK ->
                recover {
                    Toast.makeText(context, "Returning to the previous screen", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show()
                }
            RecoveryLevel.RELAUNCH_APP ->
                recover {
                    Toast.makeText(context, "Restarting the app", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show()
                }
        }
    }
}

retryCount is also in scope if you want to distinguish the first attempt from later ones (e.g. only show a dialog once):

if (retryCount <= 1 && level == RecoveryLevel.RESTART_ACTIVITY) {
    // show a loading dialog
}

Force a specific level

If you know how you want to recover, pass the level explicitly instead of using the evaluated one:

onCrash {
    recover(RecoveryLevel.RELAUNCH_APP)   // always restart the app on any crash
}

Guidance

  • Keep recovery UX fast and non-blocking — the user just hit a crash; a long modal makes it worse. A spinner or short toast is usually enough.
  • Do the crash reporting before showing UX (see report-crashes).
  • The recovery lambda runs on the main thread; don't do heavy work in it.