Support CLI/non-UI applications

[sschilli]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. The instructions for initializing the SDK say to call MSAppCenter.start in applicationDidFinishLaunching of the AppDelegate. Obviously this does not exist for a standard CLI application, and attempting to initialize in a CLI application fails, meaning analytics features are not available in such apps.

Describe the solution you'd like The ability to use AppCenter and its analytics without requiring UI/an AppDelegate. This way we could use analytics in a CLI application.

Describe alternatives you've considered No other libraries I've found seem to support analytics with pure CLI apps either.

Additional context N/A

[Jamminroot]

Hey, @sschilli, thanks for bringing this to our sight. I'll notify our PMs team so that they can prioritize this request.

[thyeggman]

Hi @sschilli - We don't officially support CLI applications at this time. I'll leave this issue open so we can come back to this if it's something that more people want.

[mikewoodworth]

+1, in our case we ship a number of xpc processes that I'd like to add crash reporting to.

[kaspesla]

same. How can we get crash reports for our app's XPC processes?

[olmisa]

Hi @kaspesla , as described here https://github.com/microsoft/appcenter/wiki/Roadmap through mid-2021 work on new features significantly reduced. We come back to this feature request later. Thanks

[DmitriyKirakosyan]

As we do not have plans to add support for this feature in the next year, I'm closing the issue.