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iTunes Connect now lets developers see crash reports


Apple has offered developers a glimpse as crash reporting since the iPhone 2.0 firmware was released, however, it was a kludge to get users to email you the crash reports from their ~/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/MobileDevice directory. Apple has a solution that will make this a lot easier.

Enter iTunes Connect, where Apple recently added the ability for developers to view crash reports from users. iTunes connect is where developers can manage applications they have on the App Store, check their sales, and get promotional codes for their apps. When you log into iTunes Connect you will be presented with the following information regarding crash logs:

Crash logs for applications are now available. To view them, go the Manage Your Applications Module below, click to view the desired application's details, then click View Crash Report.

When you navigate to Manage Your Applications > your app details > View Crash Report, you will be presented with a few items that could help you debug apps. Namely, developers can view most frequent crashes, timeouts, and memory usage right from iTunes Connect. You can find out more about crash logs on the iPhone by going to Apple's Developer tech note.

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woobert

Hmm, I see the note about the crash logs, but don't see the link to get them anywhere? I assume this means this version has never crashed? ;)

May 04 2009 at 1:24 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
jtbsdk

I updated one of my Apps using the 3.0 Beta 2 SDK and I had iPhone OS 3.0 installed on my iPhone. iTunes Connect uploaded it with no problems. Apple has changed some things with Beta 3 and later, it might be harder to write apps compatible with 2.0

May 02 2009 at 11:56 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Jacques Lema

Nope, they specifically forbid publishing an app that uses or links to 3.0 frameworks. If you submit an app built with the 3.0 SDK right now to the store apple will reject it automatically (I haven't tried but that's what their release note says).

May 02 2009 at 8:06 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Dustin Ravize

Thank god, now finally the developers can figure out and
fix the Dictionary.com app and eTrade Mobile Pro to work with my 3.0
iPhone.

May 02 2009 at 4:05 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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tuaw

They've probably already figured it out but just haven't implemented and submitted the changes yet.

I just wish Apple would update their Remote app so that it would work on my 3.0 iPhone.

May 02 2009 at 5:04 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Dustin Ravize

Yea... Sigh... I thought beta 4 and iTunes 8.2 would correct that but negative. I haven't done full research yet, but are they even letting people
upload apps from the 3.0 SDK regardless if
it's 2.0 compatible?

May 02 2009 at 5:25 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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