Android Question sentry.io support?

[warwound]

I have been asked to look at adding Sentry Application Monitoring to a b4a app.
The Sentry SDK says that the first step is to:

Update your app's build.gradle file with the Sentry Gradle plugin and configure it.

plugins {
  id "com.android.application" // should be in the same module
  id "io.sentry.android.gradle" version "5.9.0"
}

Obviously this is for a native android application and not a b4a application.
Does a b4a application contain a configuration file where I can add the 'Sentry Android Gradle plugin'?

 

[DonManfred]

Does a b4a application contain a configuration file

Not that i know of.

where I can add the 'Sentry Android Gradle plugin'?

B4A does not use Gradle at all.

Additionally afaik B4A is not using com.android.application

 

[Erel]

That's correct. You will need to manually apply whatever this plugin does. In most cases it isn't too complicated. It probably injects something in the manifest file.

 

[warwound]

Thanks for the replies.
After a little research I found some documentation which states:

The Sentry wizard will automatically patch your application:

• Update your app's build.gradle file with the Sentry Gradle plugin and configure it.
• Update your AndroidManifest.xml with the default Sentry configuration
• Create sentry.properties with an auth token to upload proguard mappings
• Add an example error to your app's Main Activity to verify your Sentry setup

I'll now look into each of these steps to see if I can manually makes the patches required.