LogCat is an adb logcat viewer written in Objective-C and designed with Apple's Human Interface Guidelines in mind. It uses the native GUI views and is a lot nicer for the eyes than the Eclipse plugins.
Originally written by Janusz Bossy who is a mobile device programmer. He's been working with Windows Mobile and iOS for quite some time. When Janusz started Android development he found Eclipse as the main frustration generator. It offers a lot of tools to get the job done but the quality of their design is poor. Janusz started using eclim on a regular basis which allowed him to write code in Vim but he was lacking a small app that would display Android logs and allow for easy filtering and searching within them. Here it is - LogCat - a simple log viewer for Android.
- May 09 Download LogCat May 09 build - 7ff81cf
- Advanced log filtering
- Filter with multiple filters at one time
- Definable filters for quick access to frequently checked logs. Filterable by:
- message,
- log type,
- tag,
- PID,
- TID,
- Timestamp
- "Intelligent" automatic scroll
- Ability to change font color and style for different log types
- Capture screen shots right from LogCat
- Can send typed characters to device
Programming:
- Janusz Bossy - SplashSoftware.pl
- qhm123 - (qhm123's GitHub profile)
- Chris Wilson - (Chris' GitHub profile)
Icon design: Kamil Tatara - cakeshop.pl
Special thanks: Dawid Gatti (Dawid's GitHub profile) for emerging with the idea for this project
(In no particular order)
- Ability to categorize filters
- Ability to bookmark a log events and annotate
- Ability to import raw logs that were saved with adb or on device (from testers)
- Recent search suggestions
- Import/Export filters
- Ability to manually type predicate
- Provide configuration setting for default predicate
- Ability to configure background to be dark instead of white
- Send screen mouse touch events to device
If you find a bug or think you can add or fix something: fork, change, send a pull request, welcome to the Credits list. That easy!