Android - print full exception backtrace to log

Question

I have a try/catch block that throws an exception and I would like to see information about the exception in the Android device log.

I read the log of the mobile de

Answer 1

e.printStackTrace() prints it to me. I don't think you're running the logcat correctly. Don't run it in a shell, just run

/home/dan/android-sdk-linux_x86/tools/adb logcat

Answer 2

try{
            ...
} catch (Exception e) {
     Log.e(e.getClass().getName(), e.getMessage(), e.getCause());
}

Answer 3

In the context of Android, I had to cast the Exception to a String:

try {
    url = new URL(REGISTRATION_PATH);
    urlConnection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
} catch(MalformedURLException e) {
    Log.i("MALFORMED URL", String.valueOf(e));
} catch(IOException e) {
    Log.i("IOException", String.valueOf(e));
}