CrashReporter symbolication client side in ios - ios

Question

i'm new of using PLCrashReport and i whant to make symbolication client side. I khnow that there is many disadvantages but i want to try it, can you help me please.
I used the last version of CrashReporter and this what i done in the appDelegate class refering to this example http://plcrashreporter.googlecode.com/svn/tags/plcrashreporter-1.1-rc1/Documentation/API/example_usage_iphone.html.
The is a topic that talk about this here
PLCrashReporter - How to symbolicate crash data in-process?
Link to the library:
https://www.plcrashreporter.org/.
(void) applicationDidFinishLaunching: (UIApplication *) application {
PLCrashReporter *crashReporter = [PLCrashReporter sharedReporter];
NSError *error;
if ([crashReporter hasPendingCrashReport])
[self handleCrashReport];
if (![crashReporter enableCrashReporterAndReturnError: &error])
NSLog(#"Warning: Could not enable crash reporter: %#", error);

Answer 1

You are linking to an old repository and documentation. The website of PLCrashReporter is https://www.plcrashreporter.org/ and the documentation is https://www.plcrashreporter.org/documentation/api/v1.2/
To enable client side symbolication you need to initialize it with a configuration like this:
PLCrashReporterSignalHandlerType signalHandlerType = PLCrashReporterSignalHandlerTypeBSD;
PLCrashReporterSymbolicationStrategy symbolicationStrategy = PLCrashReporterSymbolicationStrategyNone;
PLCrashReporterConfig *config = [[PLCrashReporterConfig alloc] initWithSignalHandlerType: signalHandlerType
symbolicationStrategy: symbolicationStrategy];
PLCrashReporter *crashReporter = [[PLCrashReporter alloc] initWithConfiguration: config];
This is based on the latest version 1.2 available on the download page: https://www.plcrashreporter.org/download
But you are right, you should not do this:
It is slow, caused the device to lock up when the crash happens for a few seconds
It requires your app to include symbols which increased the app size by 30-50% (on average)
You won't get line number information for your code.
You should instead symbolicate the crash reports using the dSYM, e.g. on your Mac.