[Documentation] Capacitor 3 - Use Automatic Android Plugin Loading

[vanpyrzericj]

Sentry's documentation for setting up capacitor projects is a bit outdated for Capacitor 3.

As seen here, Capacitor officially recommends using automatic plugin loading on android. I bumped into a couple issues when using the provided add(SentryCapacitor.class) approach where then a few other plugins no longer worked. Switching to the registerPlugin approach fixed this for me.

This callout may be worth adding to your docs, as Cap2 vs Cap3 setup.

[piotr-cz]

This is my setup

// MainActivity.java
package com.myapp.myapp;

import android.os.Bundle;
import com.getcapacitor.BridgeActivity;

import io.sentry.capacitor.SentryCapacitor;

public class MainActivity extends BridgeActivity {
    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

        // Initializes the Bridge
        registerPlugin(SentryCapacitor.class);
    }
}

BTW: This issue should probably be created at https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-docs

[lucas-zimerman]

Thanks for pointing that out, the docs will be updated 🙂

[lucas-zimerman]

As an update, you no longer need to add any additional code on your MainActivity in order to get Sentry to work on Capacitor 3.

[piotr-cz]

It's definitely worth checking, I don't register other capacitor v3 plugins either.

The Capacitor > Custom Native Android Code docs mention that using registerPlugin method is required for custom plugins. Might be that Capacitor plugins installed via npm are auto-registered by Capacitor.

[lucas-zimerman]

Closed as documented at Sentry Docs.