How to read android log cat programmatically for other applications

Question

I have read that you can\'t read logs of other apps.Also that apps like App Lock constantly read logs to find which apps have started and then present their lock screen.So t

Answer 1

As of JellyBean, you can no longer read anything in the LogCat that was not put there by your application.

Prior to JellyBean, and post JellyBean for your own app, you can use the Runtime to execute command line arguments to retrieve the logcat