User-accessible logs

[di72nn]

We often need to request logs from users. Sometimes it is a real PITA.

We need a way to easily gather and copy logs from within the app.

Standard android.util.Log doesn't provide any way to redirect or collect logs. It is possible to call logcat and gather the results, but it is ugly and has some limitations.

I was thinking about moving to SLF4J + logback-android. It should allow to log to various outputs (standard Android logcat, file, etc.). Also, SLF4J's API is better (no need for explicit String.format() in logging). Though, it would require to replace all the android.util.Log usages.
I don't see any downsides of it.

Any other ideas?

[tcitworld]

I like this. You should be able to browse logs, copy them and also send them over email (cc @nicosomb if we could have an android@wallabag.org email).

[di72nn]

About the downsides of using SLF4J on Android: there probably are libraries that log directly to logcat, so SLF4J wouldn't be able to gather that output.