Android - (ADB) Logcat

Logs in Android

public static final String LOG_TAG = ClassName.class.getSimpleName();
// Verbose
Log.v(LOG_TAG,"String");

• Reading and Writing Logs

You can use:

• Monitor or
• the command line tool ADB Logcat

to view logs.

Monitor

adb logcat

If you're overwhelmed by logs, you can stop ADB logcat while it's running by hitting CTRL+Z.

Doc: ADB logcat

• ADB doc

• Timber
• Pidcat. An update to Jeff Sharkey's excellent logcat color script which only shows log entries for processes from a specific application package.