ShipBook SDK for Android
About ShipBook
ShipBook gives you the power to remotely gather, search and analyze your user logs and exceptions in the cloud, on a per-user & session basis.
The SDK is written in Kotlin, but works perfectly well in Java. The following examples in this documentation are written in Java.
Requirements
ShipBook works with min SDK version 19 (KITKAT)
Installation
ShipBookSDK is available through jcentral.
To install it, simply add the following line to the dependencies in your build.gradle:
implementation 'io.shipbook.shipbooksdk:shipbooksdk:1.+'
Integrating Shipbook into your code
Add the following to your application file:
import io.shipbook.shipbooksdk.ShipBook;
And add the following to onCreate() :
ShipBook.start(this,"YOUR_APP_ID", "YOUR_APP_KEY");
Quick Implementation
You can call all the usual Android logs, the only difference is that you should change the import from
import android.util.Log; to import io.shipbook.shipbooksdk.Log;.
for example:
import io.shipbook.shipbooksdk.Log;
...
Log.e(TAG, "the log message"); // Error log
Log.w(TAG, "the log message"); // Warning log
Log.i(TAG, "the log message"); // Info log
Log.d(TAG, "the log message"); // Debug log
Log.v(TAG, "the log message"); // Verbose log
Simpler Implementation
ShipBook employs a simpler system for logs because the static logger causes the following issues:
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Implementation is slower, especially in cases where the log is closed.
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You need to add the word TAG for each log.
To have a log on each class you will need to create a logger:
import io.shipbook.shipbooksdk.ShipBook;
...
// in the class
static Log log = ShipBook.getLogger("TAG");
log.e("the log message"); // Error log
log.w("the log message"); // Warning log
log.i("the log message"); // Info log
log.d("the log message"); // Debug log
log.v("the log message"); // Verbose log
The TAG should be named for the specific tag of your choice. The conventional choice is to use the class name.
Usage of the log:
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Implementation is slower, especially in cases where the log is closed.
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You need to add the word TAG for each log.
To have a log on each class you will need to create a logger:
ShipBook.enableInnerLog(true);
Enable Shipbook debug logging
If your logs weren't uploaded to Shipbook, or you're experiencing some other issue with Shipbook, you can enable Shipbook debug logging to track down the problem.
Linking Shipbook to a User’s Information
If your logs weren't uploaded to Shipbook, or you're experiencing some other issue with Shipbook, you can enable Shipbook debug logging to track down the problem.
The SDK allows the option to associate each session with specific user information.
Register user:
ShipBook.registerUser("USER_ID", "USER_NAME", "FULL_NAME", "USER_EMAIL", "USER_PHONE_NUMBER", "additional info");
The only parameter that must be entered is the userId. You may set all the other parameters to null.
ShipBook.logout();
Logout
To logout the user, add the following code to your app’s logout function.
Screen
To log the user’s screen information, add the following code
ShipBook.screen(name: "SCREEN_NAME")
Using Wrappers with ShipBook
If you are already using some kind of a logging system, you may want to write wrappers to send the logs to both systems.
You will need to add the wrapper class name to addWrapperClass
ShipBook.addWrapperClass(LogWrapper.class.getName())
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Integrating Shipbook with Firebase Crashlytics
To integrate Shipbook with crashlytics just implement the completion callback of ShipBook.start as following:
ShipBook.start(this,"YOUR_APP_ID", "YOUR_APP_KEY", (sessionUrl)-> {
Crashlytics.setString("shipbookSession", sessionUrl);
return Unit.INSTANCE;
});
(in Kotlin you don't need return Unit.INSTANCE)
Now you'll have a link to the logs of the specific session in crashlytics. The link is in the Keys tab of the a specific crash under the key ShipbookSession.
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Integrating Shipbook with Timber
Just add the following code and it will work out of the box with timber.
ShipBook.addWrapperClass(Timber.class.getName());
Timber.plant(new Timber.Tree() {
{
ShipBook.addWrapperClass(this.getClass().getName());
}
@Override
protected void log(int priority, @Nullable String tag, @NotNull String message, @Nullable Throwable t) { Log.message(tag, message, priority, t);
}
});