--- title: Grave improvements: Native crash postmortems via Android... description: Sentry's Android SDK version 8.30.0 introduces native crash reporting via Android tombstones, leveraging the ApplicationExitInfo API available on Android 12+.... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/grave-improvements-native-crash-postmortems-via-android-tombstones-xnd0ra7mm twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Grave improvements: Native crash postmortems via Android tombstones | daily.dev og:description: Sentry's Android SDK version 8.30.0 introduces native crash reporting via Android tombstones, leveraging the ApplicationExitInfo API available on Android 12+.... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/grave-improvements-native-crash-postmortems-via-android-tombstones-xnd0ra7mm og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/xND0Ra7Mm.png og:image:alt: Grave improvements: Native crash postmortems via Android tombstones og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Grave improvements: Native crash postmortems via Android tombstones **[Sentry Engineering](https://daily.dev/sources/sentry)** · 14 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Sentry's Android SDK version 8.30.0 introduces native crash reporting via Android tombstones, leveraging the ApplicationExitInfo API available on Android 12+. Previously, the SDK maintained a fork of libunwindstack (AOSP's platform unwinder) to capture native crashes, which added ~1MiB of binary overhead, lacked Java/Kotlin frame symbolication, only captured the crashing thread, and required ongoing maintenance against a moving AOSP target. Tombstones, generated by Android's own debuggerd, provide full thread coverage, complete Java/Kotlin frame symbolication, and register memory context — all with zero binary overhead for stack tracing. The implementation required significant architectural work: sharing infrastructure with the existing ANR detection integration, deduplicating events between the tombstone path and the NDK signal handler path (correlated by timestamp within a 5-second window), handling session lifecycle coordination, and replacing a protobuf-javalite dependency with a handwritten 30KiB decoder (epitaph) to avoid version conflicts. Android 12+ now represents ~75% of active Android devices, making tombstone support the primary native crash reporting path for most apps. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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