Native crashes on Android have always been harder to debug than they should be. The platform has its own crash reporter ( debuggerd ) that captures the crashing thread, every other running thread, register state, and memory maps into a file called a tombstone. Tombstones have been a part of Android for a long time; in fact, they’ve been there in one form or another since Android’s first commit.
Grave improvements: Native crash postmortems via Android tombstones
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April 15, 2026
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