Android Studio Ninja Tip: Custom try/catch code template

As an Android Studio user, you should be familiar with the “surround-with try-catch” functionality.

Surround with try-catch

When you use Ctrl+Alt+T(Linux) / Cmd+Alt+T(Mac) shortcut, the built-in try-catch generator auto generates a call to the printStackTrace() method of class Exception in the catch block. After this, we manually add some code to log the exception.
e.g.,

Log.e(TAG, “Oops! something gone wrong”, e);

As a power user, you may have used some or all of the following built-in Live templates:

Live Templates

You can save yourself the pain of these 5-keystrokes or repetitive typing or copy pasting the code by becoming a Ninja who uses a custom built-in try-catch template.

Steps for customization

Step-1: Go to Android Studio Preferences | Editor | File and Code Templates
Step-2: Select Code | Catch Statement Body
Step-3: Replace the existing template from:

${EXCEPTION}.printStackTrace();

with:

Log.e(getClass().getSimpleName(), "Exception logged", ${EXCEPTION});

I generally use the following template, which logs the error using Timber and records the exception on Crashlytics.

Timber.e(${EXCEPTION}, "Failed with %s", ${EXCEPTION}.getClass().getSimpleName());
Crashlytics.log(${EXCEPTION}.getMessage());

Sample Preview

Preview showing  the usage customized try-catch template