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Manual Setup

If you can't (or prefer not to) run the automatic setup, you can follow the instructions below to configure your application manually.

The easiest way to get started is to install the Sentry Android Gradle plugin to your app module's build.gradle file.

app/build.gradle
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plugins {
  id "com.android.application"
  id "io.sentry.android.gradle" version "4.5.0"
}

Version 4.5.0 of the plugin will automatically add the Sentry Android SDK (version 7.8.0) to your app.

Configuration is done via the application AndroidManifest.xml. Here's an example config which should get you started:

AndroidManifest.xml
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<application>
  <!-- Required: set your sentry.io project identifier (DSN) -->
  <meta-data android:name="io.sentry.dsn" android:value="https://examplePublicKey@o0.ingest.sentry.io/0" />

  <!-- enable automatic breadcrumbs for user interactions (clicks, swipes, scrolls) -->
  <meta-data android:name="io.sentry.traces.user-interaction.enable" android:value="true" />
  <!-- enable screenshot for crashes -->
  <meta-data android:name="io.sentry.attach-screenshot" android:value="true" />
  <!-- enable view hierarchy for crashes -->
  <meta-data android:name="io.sentry.attach-view-hierarchy" android:value="true" />

  <!-- enable the performance API by setting a sample-rate, adjust in production env -->
  <meta-data android:name="io.sentry.traces.sample-rate" android:value="1.0" />
  <!-- enable profiling when starting transactions, adjust in production env -->
  <meta-data android:name="io.sentry.traces.profiling.sample-rate" android:value="1.0" />
  <!-- enable app start profiling -->
  <meta-data android:name="io.sentry.traces.profiling.enable-app-start" android:value="true" />
</application>

Under the hood, Sentry uses a ContentProvider to initialize the SDK based on the values provided above. This way, the SDK can capture important crashes and metrics right from the app start.

Additional options can be found on our dedicated options page.

If you want to customize the SDK init behaviour, you can still use the Manual Initialization method.

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Package:
maven:io.sentry:sentry-android
Version:
7.8.0
Repository:
https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-java
API Documentation:
https://javadoc.io/doc/io.sentry