Stream android logcat output to an sd card

Question

I want to achieve the following but so far, no luck

• Open a file in the SD Card when the android application first started.
• Stream the logcat output to

Answer 1

I know this is a late answer to the question but I would highly recommend using Logback to write messages to a log file as well as the logcat.

1. Copy logback-android-1.0.10-2.jar and slf4j-api-1.7.5.jar to your libs folder.
2. Right-Click on both libs and from the menu select Build Path -> Add to Build Path.
3. Create a logback.xml file in your assets folder and enter the following:

  

  
  
    
      %msg
    
  

  
  
    
      WARN
    

    ${LOG_DIR}/log.txt

    
      %d{HH:mm:ss.SSS} [%thread] %-5level %logger{36} - %msg%n
      
  

  
  
    
    
  

1. To write a log:

   public class MyActivity extends Activity { public static final Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(MyActivity.class);

   protected void onCreate(Bundle b)
   {
       super(b);
       try{
           throw new Exception("Test");
       }catch(Exception e){
           logger.error("Something bad happened",e);
       }
   }
   

   }