Currently, I'm developing an app for the company I work for, a lot of my co-workers use my app, the thing is, some times crashes/errors occur and I have no way of checking the log messages so I'll like to save the log messages in a text file so when an error happens I can check the log file and get a better idea of what is causing the problem.

I don't need the log to be sent to me through e-mail, it is good enough to have the file locally on the phone so I can plug it in my pc and extract the log file.

Currently, this is how I manage my logs:

try { //stuff... }
catch (Exception ex) { Log.e("Error", ex.getMessage()); }

The Log.e("Error", ex.getMessage()); is what I would like to save.

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2 Answers

try this :

public void appendLog(String text)
{ File logFile = new File("sdcard/log.file"); if (!logFile.exists()) { try { logFile.createNewFile(); } catch (IOException e) { // TODO Auto-generated catch block e.printStackTrace(); }
}
try
{ //BufferedWriter for performance, true to set append to file flag BufferedWriter buf = new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter(logFile, true)); buf.append(text); buf.newLine(); buf.close();
}
catch (IOException e)
{ // TODO Auto-generated catch block e.printStackTrace();
}
}

If you do not want to change your app, you can try mmlog tool.

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