

(which tailors the format to that appropriate for the specified Locale), a string defining the desired output format, and a list of variables. The printf() statement has as its arguments an optional The println() statement accepts a string, which can usually be a concatenation of a string and other mathematical types like the double specified by Math.PI. Scrolled, searched, and filtered using standard shell commands. (To dock a floating Android Monitor to the main AS display again, uncheck Floating Mode or Windowed Mode from the dropdown resulting from clicking its toolbox icon.)ĭisplaying LogCat Information in Shell Windowsįor the Linux systems that I use, I often find it to be more efficient to send log output to the screen or to a file where it can be The controls on the right side of the Android Monitor top bar can be used to make examining the logcat output more convenient by toggling the view on and off, and (particularly useful) selecting Floating Mode or Window Mode, which undocks the Android Monitor into a separate floating window that can be moved and resized as needed.

The default display of the logcat output in the Android Monitor window at the bottom of Android Studio is often not very useful because it has limited display space and a large volume of information scrolls through it by default. In this example the output has been selectively displayed by choosing Info (meaning only Log.i messages), Show only selected application, and filtering so that only lines containing the string "Webscreen" are displayed.Ī more extensive discussion of using Android Studio to view and filter logcat messages may be found in In the following figure Android Studio is displaying output from LogCat in the Android Monitor panel at the bottom (note that the logcat tab has been selected). Other options are Log.v (verbose), Log.d (debug),ĭisplaying LogCat Information in Android Studio Message, and is associated with how the messages are filtered in the LogCatĭisplay. Log note that the use of such commands requires an import statement in the code.) The comma is a string that will be output as a line to the logcat stream, taggedīy the string TAG. = "Class Webscreen" ) that can be used to filter the output messages and everything after

In the Java files, where TAG is a user-defined string variable (e.g., static final String TAG
