Migration Guide

Migrating between versions of Sentry's SDK for Android.

  • Contexts no longer extends ConcurrentHashMap, instead we offer a selected set of methods.
  • sentry-android-okhttp has been removed in favor of sentry-okhttp, making the module independent from Android (#3510)
  • Calling Sentry.init() on Android now throws a IllegalArgumentException, please use SentryAndroid.init() instead (#3596)
  • Metrics have been removed from the SDK (#3774)
    • Metrics will return but we don't know in what exact form yet
  • enableTracing option (a.k.a enable-tracing) has been removed from the SDK (#3776)
    • Please set tracesSampleRate to a value >= 0.0 for enabling performance instead. The default value is null which means performance is disabled.
  • Change OkHttp sub-spans to span attributes (#3556)
    • This will reduce the number of spans created by the SDK
  • Replace synchronized methods and blocks with ReentrantLock (AutoClosableReentrantLock) (#3715)
    • If you are subclassing any Sentry classes, please check if the parent class used synchronized before. Please make sure to use the same lock object as the parent class in that case.
  • traceOrigins option (io.sentry.traces.tracing-origins in manifest) has been removed, please use tracePropagationTargets (io.sentry.traces.trace-propagation-targets in manifest`) instead (#3780)
  • profilingEnabled option (io.sentry.traces.profiling.enable in manifest) has been removed, please use profilesSampleRate (io.sentry.traces.profiling.sample-rate in manifest) instead (#3780)
    • Please set profileSampleRate to a value >= 0.0 for enabling profiling instead. The default value is null which means profiling is disabled.
  • shutdownTimeout option has been removed, please use shutdownTimeoutMillis instead (#3780)
  • profilingTracesIntervalMillis option for Android has been removed (#3780)
  • io.sentry.session-tracking.enable manifest option has been removed (#3780)
  • Sentry.traceHeaders() method has been removed, please use Sentry.getTraceparent() instead (#3718)
  • Sentry.reportFullDisplayed() method has been removed, please use Sentry.reportFullyDisplayed() instead (#3717)
  • User.other has been removed, please use data instead (#3780)
  • SdkVersion.getIntegrations() has been removed, please use getIntegrationSet instead (#3780)
  • SdkVersion.getPackages() has been removed, please use getPackageSet() instead (#3780)
  • Device.language has been removed, please use locale instead (#3780)
  • TraceContext.user and TraceContextUser class have been removed, please use userId on TraceContext instead (#3780)
  • TransactionContext.fromSentryTrace() has been removed, please use Sentry.continueTrace() instead (#3780)
  • SentryDataFetcherExceptionHandler has been removed, please use SentryGenericDataFetcherExceptionHandler in combination with SentryInstrumentation instead (#3780)
  • One of the AndroidTransactionProfiler constructors has been removed, please use a different one (#3780)
  • Use String instead of UUID for SessionId (#3834)
    • The Session constructor now takes a String instead of a UUID for the sessionId parameter.
    • Session.getSessionId() now returns a String instead of a UUID.
  • The Android minSdk level for all Android modules is now 21 (#3852) (#3851)
  • All status codes below 400 are now mapped to SpanStatus.OK (#3869)
  • transaction.data has moved from extra to contexts.trace.data (#3735)
    • If you were filtering data in e.g. beforeSendTransaction please update accordingly

  • Hub has been deprecated, we're replacing the following:
    • IHub has been replaced by IScopes, however you should be able to simply pass IHub instances to code expecting IScopes, allowing for an easier migration.
    • HubAdapter.getInstance() has been replaced by ScopesAdapter.getInstance()
    • The .clone() method on IHub/IScopes has been deprecated, please use .pushScope() or .pushIsolationScope() instead
    • Some internal methods like .getCurrentHub() and .setCurrentHub() have also been replaced.
  • Sentry.popScope has been replaced by calling .close() on the token returned by Sentry.pushScope() and Sentry.pushIsolationScope(). The token can also be used in a try-with-resource block like this:
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try (final @NotNull ISentryLifecycleToken ignored = Sentry.pushScope()) {
  // this block has its separate current scope
}

as well as:

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try (final @NotNull ISentryLifecycleToken ignored = Sentry.pushIsolationScope()) {
  // this block has its separate isolation scope
}

You may also use LifecycleHelper.close(token), e.g. in case you need to pass the token around for closing later.

  • We're introducing some new Scope types in the SDK, allowing for better control over what data is attached where. Previously there was a stack of scopes that was pushed and popped. Instead we now fork scopes for a given lifecycle and then restore the previous scopes. Since Hub is gone, it is also never cloned anymore. Separation of data now happens through the different scope types while making it easier to manipulate exactly what you need without having to attach data at the right time to have it apply where wanted.
    • Global scope is attached to all events created by the SDK. It can also be modified before Sentry.init has been called. It can be manipulated using Sentry.configureScope(ScopeType.GLOBAL, (scope) -> { ... }).
    • Isolation scope can be used e.g. to attach data to all events that come up while handling an incoming request. It can also be used for other isolation purposes. It can be manipulated using Sentry.configureScope(ScopeType.ISOLATION, (scope) -> { ... }). The SDK automatically forks isolation scope in certain cases like incoming requests, CRON jobs, Spring @Async and more.
    • Current scope is forked often and data added to it is only added to events that are created while this scope is active. Data is also passed on to newly forked child scopes but not to parents.
  • Sentry.popScope has been deprecated, please call .close() on the token returned by Sentry.pushScope instead or use it in a way described in more detail in "Migration Guide".
  • We have chosen a default scope that is used for Sentry.configureScope() as well as for APIs like Sentry.setTag()
    • For Android the type defaults to CURRENT scope
    • For Backend and other JVM applicatons it defaults to ISOLATION scope
  • Event processors on Scope can now be ordered by overriding the getOrder method on implementations of EventProcessor. NOTE: This order only applies to event processors on Scope but not SentryOptions at the moment. Feel free to request this if you need it.
  • Hub is deprecated in favor of Scopes, alongside some Hub relevant APIs. More details can be found in the "Migration Guide" section.
  • (Android) The JNI layer for sentry-native has now been moved from sentry-java to sentry-native (#3189)
    • This now includes prefab support for sentry-native, allowing you to link and access the sentry-native API within your native app code
    • Checkout the sentry-samples/sentry-samples-android example on how to configure CMake and consume sentry.h
  • (Android) Replace thread id with kernel thread id in span data (#3706)
  • (Android) Enable Performance V2 by default (#3824)
    • With this change cold app start spans will include spans for ContentProviders, Application and Activity load.

  • The required Sentry version in version 8.0.0 of the SDK remains unchanged. Sentry's version >= v22.12.0 is required. This only applies to self-hosted Sentry. If you are using sentry.io, no action is needed.

You must use Sentry Gradle plugin 5.+ together with the Sentry Android SDK 8.+ otherwise, it might crash at runtime due to missing dependencies.

  • Bumped Sentry Android SDK to 7.0.0. Refer to the section below for details about changes to the SDK.
  • Renamed experimentalGuardsquareSupport flag to dexguardEnabled.

You must use Sentry Gradle plugin 4.+ together with the Sentry Android SDK 7.+ otherwise, it might crash at runtime due to binary incompatibility. If you can't do that for some reason, you can specify the Sentry version via the plugin config block:

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sentry {
  autoInstallation {
    sentryVersion.set("7.0.0")
  }
}

Similarly, if you have a Sentry SDK (e.g. sentry-android-core) dependency on one of your Gradle modules and you're updating it to 7.+, make sure the Gradle plugin is at 4.+, or specify the SDK version as shown in the snippet above.

  • The minimum supported API level was updated to 19 (minSdk).
  • The sentry-android-okhttp classes were deprecated in favor of sentry-okhttp, which is a pure Java module and can be used in non-Android projects.
    • The SentryOkHttpUtils class was removed from the public API. If you were using it, consider filing a feature request.
  • If you're using sentry-kotlin-extensions, it now requires kotlinx-coroutines-core version 1.6.1 or higher.
  • Moved enableNdk and enableScopeSync from SentryOptions to SentryAndroidOptions.
  • Changed the return type of SentryApolloInterceptor.BeforeSpanCallback from ISpan to ISpan?.
  • Scope now implements the IScope interface, therefore some methods like ScopeCallback.run accept IScope now.
  • Some Sentry.startTransaction overloads do not exist anymore, and instead, you can set old options by passing a TransactionOptions object in.

For example:

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// old
val transaction = Sentry.startTransaction("name", "op", bindToScope = true)
// new
val transaction = Sentry.startTransaction("name", "op", TransactionOptions().apply { isBindToScope = true })

  • Sentry.getSpan() now returns the root span/transaction instead of the latest span.
    • This will make the span hierarchy leaner and more readable.
  • The SDK now captures failed HTTP and GraphQL (Apollo) requests by default.
    • This can increase your event consumption and may affect your quota, because we will report failed network requests as Sentry events if you're using the sentry-android-okhttp or sentry-apollo-3 integrations by default. You can customize what errors you want/don't want to have reported for OkHttp and Apollo3 respectively.
  • Added a deadline timeout for automatic transactions.
    • This affects all automatically generated transactions on Android (UI, clicks). The default timeout is 30s, meaning the automatic transaction will be force-finished with the status deadline_exceeded when it reaches the deadline.
  • The SDK now sets ip_address to {{auto}} by default, even if sendDefaultPII is disabled.
    • We recommend you instead use the "Prevent Storing of IP Addresses" option in the "Security & Privacy" project settings on sentry.io.
  • The maxSpans setting (defaults to 1000) is now enforced for nested child spans. This means a single transaction can have maxSpans number of children (nested or not) at most.

Make sure to align all Sentry dependencies (like -timber, -okhttp or other packages) to the same version when bumping the SDK to 7.+, otherwise, it will crash at runtime due to binary incompatibility.

For example, if you're using the Sentry Android Gradle plugin with the autoInstallation feature (enabled by default), make sure to use version 4.+ of the Gradle plugin together with version 7.+ of the SDK. If you can't do that for some reason, you can specify the Sentry version via the plugin config block:

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sentry {
  autoInstallation {
    sentryVersion.set("7.0.0")
  }
}

Similarly, if you have a Sentry SDK (e.g. sentry-android-core) dependency on one of your Gradle modules and you're updating it to 7.+, make sure the Gradle plugin is at 4.+ or specify the SDK version as shown in the snippet above.

  • Starting with version 7.0.0 of sentry, Sentry's version >= v22.12.0 is required to properly ingest transactions with unfinished spans. This only applies to self-hosted Sentry. If you are using sentry.io, no action is needed.

The sentry-compose-android and sentry-compose integrations now declare their upstream dependencies as compileOnly. Make sure to have the androidx.navigation:navigation-compose, androidx.compose.runtime:runtime, and androidx.compose.ui:ui dependencies on the classpath if you're using those integrations. Otherwise, the application will crash with a NoClassDefFoundError exception.

The sentry-android-okhttp, sentry-android-fragment, and sentry-android-timber integrations now declare their upstream dependencies as compileOnly. Make sure to have the okhttp, fragment, and timber dependencies on the classpath if you're using those integrations or the application will crash with a NoClassDefFoundError exception.

  • Kotlin plugin is upgraded to 1.6.10.

This version is still compatible with Kotlin 1.4.

  • Kotlin plugin is upgraded to 1.5.

  • Kotlin languageVersion is upgraded to 1.4.

  • Gson is removed as a transitive dependency and vendored in the SDK.

    • Protocol classes now implement the JsonSerializable and JsonDeserializer interfaces.

  • SentryOptions#shutdownTimeout is renamed to shutdownTimeoutMillis.

  • Removed @Deprecated and @ApiStatus.ScheduledForRemoval methods

    • ITransaction#setRequest
    • ITransaction#getRequest
    • ITransaction#getContexts
    • SentryBaseEvent#getOriginThrowable
    • SentryOptions#getCacheDirSize
    • SentryOptions#setCacheDirSize
    • SentryOptions#isEnableSessionTracking
    • SentryOptions#setEnableSessionTracking

  • Removed unnecessary abstractions

    • IBuildInfoProvider is now BuildInfoProvider only.
    • IHandler is now MainLooperHandler only.

  • ISpan now has higher precision using the System#nanoTime instead of milliseconds.

  • Hints changed its type from Object to io.sentry.Hint

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Sentry.captureException(RuntimeException("exception"), "myStringHint")

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val hints = mutableMapOf<String, Any>("myHint" to "myStringHint")
Sentry.captureException(RuntimeException("exception"), hints)
  • SentryOptions#enableScopeSync is now enabled by default, to disable it, see the code snippet below.
AndroidManifest.xml
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<meta-data
  android:name="io.sentry.ndk.scope-sync.enable"
  android:value="false"
/>
  • SentryOptions#sendClientReports is now enabled by default. To disable it, use the code snippet below:
AndroidManifest.xml
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<meta-data
  android:name="io.sentry.send-client-reports"
  android:value="false"
/>

  • Starting with version 6.0.0 of sentry, Sentry's version >= v21.9.0 is required or you have to manually disable sending client reports via the sendClientReports option. This only applies to self-hosted Sentry. If you are using sentry.io, no action is needed.

There are more changes and refactors, but they are not user breaking changes.

Starting from version 5.6.2, the Timber.tag usage is no longer supported by our SDK (the tag will not be captured and reflected on Sentry). Please, vote on this GitHub issue to let us know if we should provide support for that.

The io.sentry.android.gradle >= 3.0.0 requires Android Gradle Plugin >= 7.0.0. For older versions of the Android Gradle Plugin, use io.sentry.android.gradle:2.+.

The autoUpload flag has been deprecated in favor of two new options:

  • includeProguardMapping - Disables/enables Proguard mapping functionality. When enabled, generates a UUID and attempts to upload a Proguard mapping associated with that UUID to Sentry. When autoUploadProguardMapping is disabled, the plugin will only generate a sentry-debug-meta.properties file containing UUID, which can later be used to manually upload the mapping using, for example sentry-cli.
  • autoUploadProguardMapping - Defines whether the gradle plugin should attempt to auto-upload the mapping file to Sentry. When includeProguardMapping is disabled, this flag has no effect.

Old:

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sentry {
    autoUpload = false
}

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sentry {
  includeProguardMapping = true
  autoUploadProguardMapping = false
}

The io.sentry.android.gradle enables the tracing instrumentation (via bytecode manipulation) for androidx.sqlite and androidx.room libraries by default, to disable it, see the code snippet below.

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sentry {
    // Enable or disable the tracing instrumentation.
    // Does auto instrumentation for 'androidx.sqlite' and 'androidx.room' libraries.
    // It starts and finishes a Span within any CRUD operation.
    // Default is enabled.
    // Only available v3.0.0 and above.
    tracingInstrumentation {
      enabled = false
    }
}

The io.sentry.android.gradle >= 2.0.0 requires Android Gradle Plugin >= 4.0.0.

The io.sentry.android.gradle >= 2.0.0 must be applied to the app/build.gradle module (or the module that has com.android.application plugin applied).

The io.sentry.android.gradle >= 2.0.0 publishes the Gradle Plugin Marker to Maven Central. As a result, you no longer need to set the classpath.

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buildscript {
    repositories {
        mavenCentral()
    }

    dependencies {
        classpath 'io.sentry:sentry-android-gradle-plugin:{version}'
    }
}

apply plugin: 'io.sentry.android.gradle'

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plugins {
    id "io.sentry.android.gradle" version "{version}"
}

buildscript {
    repositories {
        mavenCentral()
    }
}

The io.sentry.android.gradle has been rewritten in Kotlin. As a result, the Groovy or Kotlin DSL syntax has slightly changed.

The autoProguardConfig flag has been removed, the Android SDK >= 2.0.0 version already merges the ProGuard rules automatically.

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sentry {
    autoProguardConfig false
    autoUpload true
    uploadNativeSymbols false
    includeNativeSources false
}

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sentry {
    autoUpload = true
    uploadNativeSymbols = false
    includeNativeSources = false
}

You may remove android:extractNativeLibs="true" meta-data in the AndroidManifest file or android.bundle.enableUncompressedNativeLibs=false in the gradle.properties file if you're using the Android Native Development Kit. Sentry can now symbolicate events with the default value of extractNativeLibs and android.bundle.enableUncompressedNativeLibs.

Sentry#startTransaction by default does not bind created transaction to the scope. To start transaction with binding to the scope, use one of the new overloaded startTransaction methods taking bindToScope parameter and set it to true. Bound transaction can be retrieved with Sentry#getSpan.

All SDK methods have been annotated with JetBrains Annotations: @Nullable and @NotNull. Kotlin compiler respects these annotations, so in Kotlin code, some fields that were recognized as not-null, are now nullable, and the other way around.

SentryBaseEvent#getOriginThrowable has been deprecated in favor of SentryBaseEvent#getThrowable, and SentryBaseEvent#getThrowable now returns the unwrapped throwable.

SentryOptions#getCacheDirSize has been deprecated in favor of SentryOptions#getMaxCacheItems.

InvalidDsnException has been removed. It is replaced by IllegalArgumentException.

EventProcessor interface has a new default method which could break the instantiation when using trailing lambdas.

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SentryOptions#addEventProcessor { event, _ -> event }

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SentryOptions#addEventProcessor(object : EventProcessor {
    override fun process(event: SentryEvent, hint: Hint): SentryEvent? {
        return event
    }
})

A random generated installationId replaces Settings.Secure.ANDROID_ID, which has been removed. This may affect the number of unique users displayed on the the Issues page and Alerts. If you always set a custom user using Sentry.setUser(customUser), the behavior has not changed. While you don't have to make any update, if you want to maintain the old behavior, use the following code snippet:

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User user = new User();
user.setId(Settings.Secure.ANDROID_ID);

Sentry.setUser(user);

SentryOptions#setEnableSessionTracking(boolean) is deprecated in favor of SentryOptions#setEnableAutoSessionTracking(boolean). It will be removed in future.

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SentryAndroid.init(this, options -> {
    options.setEnableSessionTracking(false);
});

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SentryAndroid.init(this, options -> {
    options.setEnableAutoSessionTracking(false);
});

io.sentry.session-tracking.enable AndroidManifest meta-data is deprecated in favor of io.sentry.auto-session-tracking.enable. It will be removed in future.

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AndroidManifest.xml
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<application>
    <meta-data
    android:name="io.sentry.session-tracking.enable"
    android:value="false"
  />
</application>

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AndroidManifest.xml
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<application>
    <meta-data
    android:name="io.sentry.auto-session-tracking.enable"
    android:value="false"
  />
</application>

operation is now a required property of the SentryTransaction and SentrySpan. Whenever a transaction or span is started, the value for operation must be provided:

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Sentry.startTransaction("transaction-name", "operation-name");

The package io.sentry.core has been renamed to io.sentry. To compile correctly, replace the strings on all the usages from io.sentry.core. to io.sentry.

Other than that, the APIs didn't change. Release Heath sets by default. If you prefer not to track the health of your releases, disable it with:

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<application>
  <meta-data
    android:name="io.sentry.session-tracking.enable"
    android:value="false"
  />
</application>

With Sentry Android, we've updated the API to resemble the Unified API more closely. And now that the SDK isn't built on top of io.sentry:sentry-java, Sentry Android has more Android-specific features.

If you want to upgrade from the previous version of the SDK, please check the following sections of changes that may need updating in your code.

The file sentry.properties used by the previous version of the SDK has been discontinued. Configurations for the new SDK are in AndroidManifest.xml or directly in the code.

Example of the configuration in the Manifest:

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<application>
    <!-- Example of the Sentry DSN setting -->
    <meta-data
    android:name="io.sentry.dsn"
    android:value="https://examplePublicKey@o0.ingest.sentry.io/0"
  />
</application>

If you want to set the configuration manually in the code, you need to initialize the SDK with SentryAndroid.init() --- described in Installation --- in the same file as SentryAndroidOptions, which holds configuration items.

The new SDK can initialize automatically, all you need to do is provide the DSN in your Manifest file, as shown in the previous example in Configuration.

If you want to register any callback to filter and modify events and/or breadcrumbs, or if you want to provide the configuration values via code, you need to initialize the SDK using the SentryAndroid.init().

To initialize the SDK manually:

  • Disable the auto-init feature by providing the following line in the manifest:

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    <application>
    <meta-data android:name="io.sentry.auto-init" android:value="false" />
</application>

  • Initialize the SDK directly in your application:

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SentryAndroid.init(this, options -> {
  options.setDsn("https://examplePublicKey@o0.ingest.sentry.io/0");
});

Please note that the new SDK will send with each event a release version in a different format than the previous SDK.

If you are using the GitHub or GitLab integrations, you need to do one of the following:

  • Use the new format
  • Set the release in your AndroidManifest.xml
  • Change your code as described in the configuration section

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Sentry.getContext().addTag("tagName", "tagValue");

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Sentry.setTag("tagName", "tagValue");

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try {
  int x = 1 / 0;
} catch (Exception e) {
  Sentry.capture(e);
}

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try {
  int x = 1 / 0;
} catch (Exception e) {
  Sentry.captureException(e);
}

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Sentry.capture("This is a test");

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Sentry.captureMessage("This is a test"); // SentryLevel.INFO by default
Sentry.captureMessage("This is a test", SentryLevel.WARNING); // or specific level

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Sentry.getContext().recordBreadcrumb(
  new BreadcrumbBuilder().setMessage("User made an action").build()
);

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Sentry.addBreadcrumb("User made an action");

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Sentry.getContext().setUser(
  new UserBuilder().setEmail("hello@sentry.io").build()
);

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User user = new User();
user.setEmail("hello@sentry.io");
Sentry.setUser(user);

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Sentry.getContext().addExtra("extra", "thing");

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Sentry.setExtra("extra", "thing");

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Sentry.clearContext();

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Sentry.configureScope(s -> s.clear());

Disable the autoProguardConfig flag from the Sentry Gradle Plugin since io.sentry:sentry-android >= 2.0.0 does this automatically.

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sentry {
    autoProguardConfig false
}
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