Feedback

Feedback is an Android library that aims to replicate the Google feedback mechanism circa start of 2017. Feedback tries to be opinionated about the UI and attempts to provide a great UX on all form factors.

Feedback captures a screenshot which the user can markup, as well as the system logs, and provides them for easy upload.

Using in your application

The Basics

Add the dependency to your build.gradle:

  compile ('com.volkhart.feedback:feedback:<current_version>')

Add the following to your AndroidManifest.xml. This is used to safely share the screenshot.

<provider
    android:name="com.volkhart.feedback.FeedbackFileProvider"
    android:authorities="${applicationId}.feedback"
    android:exported="false"
    android:grantUriPermissions="true">
    <meta-data
        android:name="android.support.FILE_PROVIDER_PATHS"
        android:resource="@xml/feedback_filepaths" />
</provider>

Subclass FeedbackFragment...

public class MyFeedbackFragment extends com.volkhart.feedback.FeedbackFragment {
    public static final String TAG = "MyFeedbackFragment";
    
    @Override
    protected Configuration getConfiguration() {
        String authority = BuildConfig.APPLICATION_ID + ".feedback";
        return new Configuration(authority);
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onSendButtonClicked(Feedback feedback) {
        return false; // TODO implement
    }
}

... and add it to your Activity.

public class MyActivity extends AppCompatActivity {
    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        if (savedInstanceState == null) {
            getSupportFragmentManager().beginTransaction()
                    .add(new MyFeedbackFragment(), MyFeedbackFragment.TAG)
                    .commit();
        }
        // Other stuff...
    }
}

Uploading

You'll want to call your upload mechanism in onSendButtonClicked(Feedback) of your FeedbackFragment subclass. There are several components available that implement uploading to popular destinations; they are listed here (search the page for maoni- ). Alternatively you can handle the uploading yourself.

Alternatives

If you're looking for more customizability, check out the parent project, maoni.