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ShipBook SDK for Android

Android logger SDK Open Source

About ShipBook

ShipBook gives you the power to remotely gather, search and analyze your user logs and exceptions in the cloud, on a per-user & session basis.

The SDK is written in Kotlin, but works perfectly well in Java. The following examples in this documentation are written in Java.


ShipBook works with min SDK version 19 (KITKAT)


ShipBookSDK is available through jcentral.

To install it, simply add the following line to the dependencies in your build.gradle:

implementation 'io.shipbook.shipbooksdk:shipbooksdk:1.+'

Integrating Shipbook into your code

Add the following to your application file:

import io.shipbook.shipbooksdk.ShipBook;


And add the following to  onCreate():

ShipBook.start(this,"YOUR_APP_ID", "YOUR_APP_KEY");

Quick Implementation

You can call all the usual Android logs, the only difference is that you should change the import from

import android.util.Log; to import io.shipbook.shipbooksdk.Log;.


for example:

import io.shipbook.shipbooksdk.Log;



Log.e(TAG, "the log message"); //    Error log

Log.w(TAG, "the log message"); //    Warning log

Log.i(TAG, "the log message"); //    Info log

Log.d(TAG, "the log message"); //    Debug log

Log.v(TAG, "the log message"); //    Verbose log

Simpler Implementation

ShipBook employs a simpler system for logs because the static logger causes the following issues:

  • Implementation is slower, especially in cases where the log is closed.

  • You need to add the word TAG for each log.


To have a log on each class you will need to create a logger:


import io.shipbook.shipbooksdk.ShipBook;



// in the class

static Log log = ShipBook.getLogger("TAG");

The TAG should be named for the specific tag of your choice. The conventional choice is to use the class name.

Usage of the log:

log.e("the log message"); //    Error log

log.w("the log message"); //    Warning log

log.i("the log message"); //    Info log

log.d("the log message"); //    Debug log

log.v("the log message"); //    Verbose log

Enable Shipbook debug logging

If your logs weren't uploaded to Shipbook, or you're experiencing some other issue with Shipbook, you can enable Shipbook debug logging to track down the problem.


Linking Shipbook to a User’s Information

The SDK allows the option to associate each session with specific user information.


Register user:

ShipBook.registerUser("USER_ID", "USER_NAME", "FULL_NAME", "USER_EMAIL", "USER_PHONE_NUMBER", "additional info");

The only parameter that must be entered is the   userId.   You may set all the other parameters to   null.


To logout the user, add the following code to your app’s logout function.



To log the user’s screen information, add the following code

ShipBook.screen(name: "SCREEN_NAME")

Using Wrappers with ShipBook

If you are already using some kind of a logging system, you may want to write wrappers to send the logs to both systems.

You will need to add the wrapper class name to addWrapperClass


Integrating Shipbook with Crashlytics

To integrate Shipbook with crashlytics just implement the completion callback of ShipBook.start as following:


ShipBook.start(this,"YOUR_APP_ID", "YOUR_APP_KEY", (sessionUrl)->

             Crashlytics.setString("shipbookSession", sessionUrl);

             return Unit.INSTANCE;


(in Kotlin you don't need    return Unit.INSTANCE)

Now you'll have a link to the logs of the specific session in crashlytics. The link is in the Keys tab of the a specific crash under the key  ShipbookSession.


ShipBookSDK is available under the MIT license. See the LICENSE file for more info.