[guardian-dev] HockeySDK still used in ChatSecure?

[Nathan of Guardian]

On Mon, Oct 20, 2014, at 09:50 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> 
> I see that the HockeySDK.jar is included in ChatSecure.  Is the Hockey
> stuff
> still used?  If it is only used for gathering crash reports, I think we
> should
> switch to the Google Play beta channel.  It doesn't require adding a jar
> or
> any special API.  And they've added two new ways for getting the crash
> reports:
> 
> * via user permissions to the Play console, so a user account can have
> read-only access to get the crash dumps and related stuff
> 
> * as files via Google Drive.

I still prefer the Hockey crash report format and dashboard to anything
that Google provides. We include this jar even in the production
release, and the user is prompted after a crash to submit the report. 

Hockey also integrates directly with Redmine, so we can easily create
tickets from crashes.

I will take a look at these new capabilities, and I agree, reducing
dependencies is a good idea.

+n