Grave improvements: Native crash postmortems via Android tombstones

Native crash reporting on Android has been historically challenging due to limitations in accessing and analyzing tombstone files, which contain detailed crash data captured by Android's debuggerd. These tombstones have been part of Android since its inception, but their programmatic access was restricted, forcing developers to replicate crash reporting infrastructure inefficiently. With Android 11 and 12, new features like ApplicationExitInfo have been introduced, allowing better access to crash data. Sentry's Android SDK version 8.30.0 utilizes this to enhance crash reporting by accessing tombstone data directly, providing comprehensive crash information without the overhead of previous methods. This update significantly benefits apps using native code by offering complete stack traces and symbolication of Java/Kotlin frames, reducing binary size, and alleviating maintenance burdens. The integration supports both Sentry's SDK and the platform's crash reporting, offering a unified and efficient solution for native crash analysis on devices running Android 12 and above, which now account for a significant portion of the Android user base.

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