How to get Android crash logs?

Question

I have an app that is not in the market place (signed with a debug certificate), but would like to get crash log data, whenever my application crashes. Where can I find a lo

Answer 1

1) Plug in Phone through USB (w/ Developer Debugging options enabled)

2) Open Terminal and Navigate to your Android SDK (for Mac):

cd ~/Library/Android/sdk/platform-tools

3) Logcat from that directory (in your terminal) to generate a constant flow of logs (for Mac):

./adb logcat

4) Open your app that crashes to generate crash logs

5) Ctrl+C to stop terminal and look for the logs associated with the app that crashes. It may say something like the following:

AndroidRuntime: FATAL EXCEPTION: main