flutter_bug_report 0.2.1

Flutter bug reports with the log already attached. Captures logger output, debugPrint and crashes, redacts secrets, and builds a bounded txt/json/zip. No vendor, no SDK.

flutter_bug_report

Bug reports with the log already attached.
The payload a shake-to-report SDK sends — without the vendor.

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Every bug report that arrives as "it didn't work" costs somebody an afternoon. Attaching Flutter crash logs to a report by hand costs them the rest of it. The fix isn't a better form — it's attaching the log, the build number and the phone to whatever the person typed. Tools that do this exist, and they're SDKs from companies that want your data on their servers.

flutter_bug_report is that attachment, and nothing else. It collects, and it hands you a file. Where the file goes — Sentry, Crashlytics, Jira, Telegram, your own endpoint — is your app's business. No client, no DSN, no signup.

await BugReport.init();

BugReport.info('opened the payment screen');

// …later, when someone reports something
final bundle = await BugReport.build(
  description: 'Payment screen froze after I pressed pay',
  metadata: {'app_version': '1.0.17+2185', 'platform': 'android'},
);

await myBackend.upload(bundle.bytes, bundle.fileName, bundle.mimeType);

No instance to hold, nothing to inject, no service locator. There's one log per app, the same way there's one console.

What it looks like

A sheet, a sentence, and the log goes with it — from Alif Business, in production.

What you get

And this is what arrives. Note what happened to the bearer token and the card number on the way:

=== flutter_bug_report ===
generated_at: 2026-08-26T07:19:11.214967Z
description: The client list was empty after I pressed refresh
entry_count: 5
truncated: false
metadata:
  app_version: 1.0.17+2185
  platform: android
  os_version: Android 14
  device_model: samsung SM-A546E
==================

2026-08-26T07:19:11.201742Z INFO    signed in
2026-08-26T07:19:11.209049Z INFO    GET /clients
  {"status":500,"authorization":"Bearer «redacted»","ms":1840}
2026-08-26T07:19:11.210375Z WARNING retrying in 2s
2026-08-26T07:19:11.210420Z INFO    paid with card ************4242
2026-08-26T07:19:11.211374Z ERROR   could not load clients
  Bad state: clients came back null
  #0      ClientsCubit.load (package:app/clients_cubit.dart:41:7)
  <asynchronous suspension>

Everything else is optional

The collector and the sheet are the whole package. What follows is off until you switch it on, and the ones that could carry somebody's details stay off until you have thought about it.

The route they took

The most useful line in a bug report is often not an error — it is which screens they passed through to reach one.

MaterialApp(navigatorObservers: [BugReportObserver()]);
GoRouter(observers: [BugReportObserver()]);

route: push /clients ← /home
route: push /clients/details ← /clients
route: push /payment ← /clients/details

Route names only, never their arguments — an argument is where the client id and the phone number live.

A screenshot

BugReportWrapper(withScreenshot: true, ...)

Off by default, and that is the right default. A screenshot carries whatever the screen carried, and unlike a log it cannot be redacted — nothing here can read what is in it. Switched on, the sheet shows the person the picture before it goes and one tap drops it. Nobody should find out afterwards what they sent.

It lands as screenshot.png inside the zip, captured before the sheet opens so it shows the screen being reported rather than the form reporting it.

A log that survives the crash

MemoryLogStore loses everything the process loses — including, at the worst moment, the lines that explain why the process died.

await BugReport.init(store: FileLogStore(retention: Duration(days: 3)));

Opt in knowingly. A file on disk outlives the session, and a phone that is shared, repaired or sold carries it along. Before switching it on: check your redactors cover what your app logs, keep retention as short as you can stand, and call BugReport.clear() on sign-out.

Who it happened to

BugReport.identify(user.id);   // and identify(null) on sign-out

An id and nothing else. A name, a phone number and an email are yours to send or not, through metadata.

What the phone is

Folded in automatically, from what Flutter itself knows:

platform · os_version · locale · screen · pixel_ratio · text_scale · build_mode

Non-identifying by construction — nothing here reads a device id, and anything more specific is yours to pass. BugReport.init(deviceFacts: false) sends none of it. Whatever you pass in metadata wins over what was collected.

Install

dependencies:
  flutter_bug_report: ^0.2.0

With the built-in sheet

runApp(
  BugReportWrapper(
    onSubmit: (bundle, description) => myBackend.upload(bundle),
    child: MaterialApp(...),
  ),
);

That is the whole setup. No init, no navigatorKey, no async main: the wrapper starts collection itself and finds your app's navigator on its own, so it works wrapped above MaterialApp or inside its builder.

A long press anywhere opens the sheet. trigger: BugReportTrigger.doubleTap or .none if you would rather open it yourself, and enabled: false — a plain bool, so a const folds the whole thing out of a release build.

onSubmit is the one thing you must write, and it is the point: the package builds the file and never decides where it goes.

Or without any UI

final bundle = await BugReport.build(
  description: whateverTheyTyped,
  metadata: {'app_version': '1.0.17+2185'},
);

await myBackend.upload(bundle.bytes, bundle.fileName, bundle.mimeType);

When you want more than the default

void main() async {
  WidgetsFlutterBinding.ensureInitialized();
  await BugReport.init(              // before runApp, so the log covers startup
    redactors: [...Redactor.defaults, Redactor.keys({'merchant_pin'})],
  );
  runApp(const MyApp());
}

init is where redactors, a persistent store, and capture of debugPrint and the framework's own errors are switched on. The implicit setup leaves debugPrint alone on purpose — swapping a global nobody asked for turns up as a failing assertion in your widget tests.

Logging before init() collects rather than throws or silently drops, and init() carries those entries forward: the lines that explain a startup bug are written before anything has had a chance to be configured.

Making it yours

BugReportWrapper(
  strings: BugReportStrings(title: l10n.reportTitle, send: l10n.send),
  theme: const BugReportTheme(accent: Color(0xFF1B4FD8), radius: 20),
  ...
)

Every word is a parameter and every colour falls back to your own ThemeData, so the sheet reads as part of the app rather than as a package bolted onto it.

What it collects

Source	How
Your own calls	BugReport.debug/info/warning/error(...)
debugPrint	automatic — including from plugins and packages you don't control
bare print	wrap runApp in ConsoleCapture.runCaptured
Flutter errors	FlutterError.onError and PlatformDispatcher.onError

Capture never displaces what was there before it. The console still prints, and an existing crash reporter still reports — flutter_bug_report chains onto both.

Redaction

A bundle leaves the device, so secrets come out on the way in — an entry is rewritten as it's stored, never as it's read. A secret that was never written down can't leak from a store somebody later dumps by hand.

Redactor.defaults covers what it's wrong to ship without:

Rule	Catches
Auth schemes	Authorization headers, Bearer/Basic tokens — including the token after the scheme, not just the word
JWTs	eyJ… written out on its own
Card numbers	Luhn-checked, so an order id doesn't come out starred. Last four kept
Credential keys	password, otp, token, refresh_token, api_key, secret, cvv, cookie, and the rest

Add your own, or turn it off knowingly:

await BugReport.init(
  redactors: [
    ...Redactor.defaults,
    Redactor.pattern(RegExp(r'\+998\d{9}'), replacement: '«phone»'),
    Redactor.keys({'merchant_pin'}),
  ],
);

Bounds

An attachment nobody can open is no better than none. A bundle is bounded twice over — by entry count and by byte size — and cut from the front, because whatever is being reported happened just before the person wrote it down.

final bundle = await BugReport.build(
  limit: 500,             // entries
  maxBytes: 256 * 1024,   // before compression
  format: BundleFormat.zip,
);

bundle.truncated;   // say so in the ticket: this is the end of a session
bundle.entryCount;
bundle.sizeInBytes;

Size is measured by rendering, not estimated: an entry carrying a stack trace is an order of magnitude larger than one that doesn't, and an average is wrong in both directions.

Formats

	Contents	For
BundleFormat.text	header, then lines, oldest first	a human opening a ticket
BundleFormat.json	report + entries	anything that will index it
BundleFormat.zip	logs.txt and report.json	the default — every tracker takes it

Take the bytes, or take a file:

bundle.bytes;              // Uint8List — for a multipart field or an attachment
bundle.fileName;           // log-bundle-20260826-141233.zip
bundle.mimeType;           // application/zip
await bundle.writeTo();    // File, in the temp directory by default

Storage

MemoryLogStore is the default. It keeps nothing on the device: no file to grow unattended, nothing to clean up, and nothing left behind on a phone that's shared or sold. It loses everything the process loses.

If you need the log to survive the crash you're chasing, implement LogStore over sqflite, Hive or a file — five methods, all async by design so a disk-backed store fits without callers changing shape.

await BugReport.init(store: MyDatabaseLogStore());

Recipes

Shake to report

flutter_bug_report builds the payload; any gesture package can be the trigger.

ShakeDetector.autoStart(onPhoneShake: (_) async {
  final bundle = await BugReport.build(description: await askUser());
  await upload(bundle);
});

Attach to Sentry

final bundle = await BugReport.build(description: text);

await Sentry.captureException(
  BugReport(text),
  withScope: (scope) => scope.addAttachment(
    SentryAttachment.fromUint8List(bundle.bytes, bundle.fileName),
  ),
);

Send to a Telegram bot

final bundle = await BugReport.build(description: text);

await dio.post(
  'https://api.telegram.org/bot$token/sendDocument',
  data: FormData.fromMap({
    'chat_id': chatId,
    'caption': text,
    'document': MultipartFile.fromBytes(bundle.bytes, filename: bundle.fileName),
  }),
);

Log Dio requests

Deliberately not a dependency — ten lines, and you decide what's worth recording.

class BugReportInterceptor extends Interceptor {
  @override
  void onResponse(Response response, ResponseInterceptorHandler handler) {
    BugReport.info(
      '${response.requestOptions.method} ${response.requestOptions.path}',
      extra: {'status': response.statusCode},
    );
    handler.next(response);
  }

  @override
  void onError(DioException err, ErrorInterceptorHandler handler) {
    BugReport.error(
      '${err.requestOptions.method} ${err.requestOptions.path}',
      error: err,
      extra: {'status': err.response?.statusCode},
    );
    handler.next(err);
  }
}

Log bloc state changes

class BugReportObserver extends BlocObserver {
  @override
  void onChange(BlocBase bloc, Change change) {
    super.onChange(bloc, change);
    BugReport.debug(
      '${bloc.runtimeType}: ${change.currentState.runtimeType} '
      '-> ${change.nextState.runtimeType}',
    );
  }
}

Capture bare print too

print resolves through the ambient zone, so catching it means running the app inside one:

void main() async {
  await BugReport.init();
  ConsoleCapture.runCaptured(
    () => runApp(const MyApp()),
    (line) => BugReport.debug(line),
  );
}

Privacy

• Nothing is sent anywhere. The package has no network code.
• MemoryLogStore writes nothing to disk.
• Redaction runs before storage, not before export.
• metadata is a plain map you fill in — flutter_bug_report doesn't read the device, so it can't decide on your behalf what counts as identifying.
• BugReport.clear() on sign-out, if the log could name the person who just left.

License

MIT © Samandar Ahadjonov