Not all data shown when Android logcat is read programatically

I have bad news for you: as of JB, READ_LOGS don’t just work as it did anymore: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/android-developers/6U4A5irWang (scroll to the post of Dianne Hackborn, an Android Develper) and this video: Google I/O 2012 – Ten Things Game Developers Should Know (22:47) for official sources. However his has not been yet documented (the READ_LOGS permission … Read more

What do these Android logcat warnings mean?

I would like to add on top of what @Monte Creasor explained. I have had the same issue and consulted this bug report which basically says that the problem might be caused by com.android.support:appcompat-v7:21.0.3, on of the main dependencies required to use Android’s new Layout capabilities. Try going back to the v7:20.0.0, this should solve … Read more

Enable LogCat on Release Build in Android Studio

Add android:debuggable=”true” (default is false) to your Manifest inside the <application> tag. From the docs: android:debuggable Whether or not the application can be debugged, even when running on a device in user mode — “true” if it can be, and “false” if not. respectively You can disable debugging by removing the android:debuggable attribute from the … Read more

How to exclude certain messages by TAG name using Android adb logcat?

You can do this from within DDMS Monitor (and also Eclipse or Android Studio) with the regular expression input box and negative look-ahead assertions, for example I am excluding a lot of noise from my log with the following: tag:^(?!(WifiMulticast|WifiHW|MtpService|PushClient)) (The “tag:” isn’t part of the regular expression, but tells LogCat to only apply the … Read more