What is considered a failure in the Google Play Console

Question

I accessed the statistics of my app in Google Play Console and noticed that there are several notes of failures, but there is no ANR and the crashlytics registered very few crashs, which leads me to understand that these pointed failures are not crashs, searching in the documentation I saw that these failures are detected if the user has marked the option to "send reports automatically" on Android...

One point to note is that there is no error report pointing to these failures (while ANR show errors in the console play), which leaves me even more confused... If those glitches aren’t crash, what are they?

Answer 1

The word crash that you used is very relative, even because crash in English means failure.

Anrs

In the case of Anrs are those messages the user receives from App is not responding.

An ANR will be triggered to your application when one of the following conditions occurs:

• While your activity is in the foreground, your app hasn’t responded to an incoming event or how to press the key or tap events on the screen in 5 seconds.
• While you do not have an activity in the foreground, and have not finished the execution within a considerable period of time.

FLAWS

An Android app hangs whenever there is an unexpected output caused by an untreated exception or signal. An application that is made using Java, hangs if it throws an untreated exception. An application that is written using native code languages, fails if there is an un-manipulated signal such as SIGSEGV , while running.

When an application crashes, Android terminates the application process and displays a dialog box to inform the user that the application has stopped.

Sources:

• https://developer.android.com/topic/performance/vitals/crash
• https://developer.android.com/topic/performance/vitals/anr
• https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answer/6083203?hl=pt-BR