Date: 2012jul6 OS: Android Language: Java Q. How can my app suppress any possible Force Closes? A. On Android, a Force Close is caused by an uncaught exception. So you can wrap questionable code in:

try { myCodeThatMayCrash(); } catch (Exception ex) { // Do something. eg log }

Or you can do:

Thread.setDefaultUncaughtExceptionHandler(new TopExceptionHandler());

near the start of your app - eg onCreate() Where you write TopExceptionHandler - eg:

class TopExceptionHandler implements Thread.UncaughtExceptionHandler { private Thread.UncaughtExceptionHandler defaultUEH; TopExceptionHandler() { // Constructor this.defaultUEH = Thread.getDefaultUncaughtExceptionHandler(); } void uncaughtException(Thread t, Throwable e) { // It makes sense to log something now. // You can display a simple dialog or toast message. // // In theory you can do anything here but // there are only two reasonable choices: // - Stop the app / exit // eg: // System.exit(666); // OR // - Pass control to the system's regular handler. // eg: // defaultUEH.uncaughtException(t, e); // // Again, its almost always not a good idea for your app // to continue on as if the exception had not occured. } }