Report as app context what's the current activity during the error

[marandaneto]

I'd like to know which Activity/Screen was visible during the error (right now we only know if it's in the background or foreground).
Right now it's only possible by looking at crumbs, I want to make this more visible.
This should be searchable/alertable, I want to know which screens are getting more errors and alert only the screens I care the most.
For transactions this is not needed since the Screen name is already the transaction name.
I want to filter/alert errors that happened during screen X only.

For example, an error that happened after payment is less important than an error during the payment :P

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1. Report as app context what's the current activity during the error sentry-java#2664
   Platform: Android enhancement +2
   
2. Report as app context what's the current screen during the error sentry-cocoa#3140
   Platform: Cocoa Type: Enhancement +2
   
3. Report as app context what's the current activity during the error sentry-dart#1411
   Extra Context Platform: Dart enhancement +3
   
4. Report as app context what's the current screen during the error sentry-react-native#2994
   Platform: React-Native +1
   
5. feat(schema): Add view_names to AppContext relay#2344
   +0

Other platforms to consider:

• .NET
• Unity

[romtsn]

We should define what would be the key for this in App context, this also requires some backend work to make it searchable, update relay with the new known key, etc.

[brustolin]

The navigation crumbs on Cocoa are based on viewDidAppear of UIViewControllers. While this helps you to understand which UIViewControllers are visible, it is not a reliable way of detecting on which screen the user currently is, as you can have nested UIViewControllers. On Android, we have a similar problem with single activity and fragments. So basically, we need a reliable way of reporting the current screen.

We could traverse the view controller tree to find out the root controller, but even this is not guaranteed to be correct.

[krystofwoldrich]

RN sends this information as a tag routing.route.name.

Could the key be:

event.contexts.app.screen
event.contexts.app.view

[kahest]

As discussed for Cocoa here: getsentry/sentry-cocoa#3140 (comment)

• we should consider adding a manual API to set the screen/activity for use cases where automatic detection doesn't work well (e.g. SwiftUI)

[marandaneto]

For android: https://github.com/skydoves/snitcher
We can take a look at how on they track "current screen" for crashes.