Android App Restarts upon Crash/force close

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  1. Best solution would be instead of using Static data, use Shared Preferences or store data in a Database and if any uncaught Exception occurs, show a message like Application has crashed and a report is sent to the admin and then restart the Activity that caused the Crash. This way user can continue using the application.

  2. Do the same but instead of restarting the Activity which caused the Exception restart the application.

create a class used to handle unCaughtException

public class MyExceptionHandler implements
        java.lang.Thread.UncaughtExceptionHandler {
    private final Context myContext;
    private final Class<?> myActivityClass;

    public MyExceptionHandler(Context context, Class<?> c) {

        myContext = context;
        myActivityClass = c;
    }

    public void uncaughtException(Thread thread, Throwable exception) {

        StringWriter stackTrace = new StringWriter();
        exception.printStackTrace(new PrintWriter(stackTrace));
        System.err.println(stackTrace);// You can use LogCat too
        Intent intent = new Intent(myContext, myActivityClass);
        String s = stackTrace.toString();
        //you can use this String to know what caused the exception and in which Activity
        intent.putExtra("uncaughtException",
                "Exception is: " + stackTrace.toString());
        intent.putExtra("stacktrace", s);
        myContext.startActivity(intent);
        //for restarting the Activity
        Process.killProcess(Process.myPid());
        System.exit(0);
    }
}

and in every Activity create an Object of this class and set it as the DefaultUncaughtExceptionHandler

    Thread.setDefaultUncaughtExceptionHandler(new MyExceptionHandler(this,
            YourCurrentActivity.class));

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