Creating and Storing Log File on device in Android

Question

I am planning to automate the testing of an application by creating a log to store some results of execution of the app and latter on parse it using a piece of python code a

Answer 1

I used a very simple approach to write String messages to the log file by creating a FileWriter object.

    public static BufferedWriter out;
        private void createFileOnDevice(Boolean append) throws IOException {
                /*
                 * Function to initially create the log file and it also writes the time of creation to file.
                 */
                File Root = Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory();
                if(Root.canWrite()){
                     File  LogFile = new File(Root, "Log.txt");
                     FileWriter LogWriter = new FileWriter(LogFile, append);
                     out = new BufferedWriter(LogWriter);
                     Date date = new Date();
                     out.write("Logged at" + String.valueOf(date.getHours() + ":" + date.getMinutes() + ":" + date.getSeconds() + "\n")); 
                     out.close();

            }
        }

Now the function to write a new message to the log file.

    public void writeToFile(String message){
            try {
                out.write(message+"\n");
                out.close();
            } catch (IOException e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            }