How to output messages to the Eclipse console when developing for Android

Question

How can I print messages (like a flag) to the Eclipse console (or log) when developing and debugging an Android app

Answer 1

System.out.println() also outputs to LogCat. The benefit of using good old System.out.println() is that you can print an object like System.out.println(object) to the console if you need to check if a variable is initialized or not.

Log.d, Log.v, Log.w etc methods only allow you to print strings to the console and not objects. To circumvent this (if you desire), you must use String.format.