How do you usually Tag log entries? (android)

Question

I assume most of you are aware of android.util.Log All logging methods accept \'String tag\' as a first argument.

And my question is How do you usually tag y

Answer 1

It is a very old question, but even thought an updated answer for July 2018 it is more preferable to use Timber. In order to Log the correct logging, errors and warns can be send to third party crash libraries, such as Firebase or Crashlytics.

In the class that implements Application you should add this:

@Override
public void onCreate() {
    super.onCreate();
    if (BuildConfig.DEBUG) {
        Timber.plant(new Timber.DebugTree());
    } else {
        Timber.plant(new CrashReportingTree());
    }
}

/** A tree which logs important information for crash reporting. */
private static class CrashReportingTree extends Timber.Tree {
    @Override protected void log(int priority, String tag, String message, Throwable t) {
        if (priority == Log.VERBOSE || priority == Log.DEBUG) {
            return;
        }

        FakeCrashLibrary.log(priority, tag, message);

        if (t != null) {
            if (priority == Log.ERROR) {
                FakeCrashLibrary.logError(t);
            } else if (priority == Log.WARN) {
                FakeCrashLibrary.logWarning(t);
            }
        }
    }
}

Do not forget Timber dependency.

implementation 'com.jakewharton.timber:timber:4.7.1'