Awesome Carter. Thanks for sharing.
On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 5:26 AM, Carter <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> You must request the android.permission.READ_LOGS in your Android
> Manifest.
>
> Then you can run the logcat from the command line on the phone, and
> just get a dump of the output. I recommend filtering the output for
> both AndroidRuntime with the error level only (to gather exceptions
> that crashed your app) as well as all messages from your app's log
> tag. See below:
>
> Process mLogcatProc = null;
> BufferedReader reader = null;
> try
> {
> mLogcatProc = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(new String[]
> {"logcat", "-d", "AndroidRuntime:E [Your Log Tag Here]:V
> *:S" }); //
> $NON-NLS-1$ //$NON-NLS-2$ //$NON-NLS-3$
> reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader
> (mLogcatProc.getInputStream()));
>
> String line;
> final StringBuilder log = new StringBuilder();
> String separator = System.getProperty("line.separator"); //$NON-
> NLS-1$
> while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null)
> {
> log.append(line);
> log.append(separator);
> }
>
> // do whatever you want with the log. I'd recommend using Intents
> to
> create an email
> }
> catch (IOException e)
> {
> ...
> }
> finally
> {
> if (reader != null)
> try
> {
> reader.close();
> }
> catch (IOException e)
> {
> ...
> }
> }
>
> On Mar 13, 2:48 pm, Mike Collins <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I know how to use adb's logcat to capture the log information.
> > I know how to use logcat inside an adb shell to display the log
> > information.
> >
> > Is it possible to do this from my application on the phone?
> >
> > I'm trying to get a bit more context than just the call stack
> > captured
> > when/if my app crashes.
> >
> > tia,
> > mike
> >
>
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