A friend has an Android application that isn’t functioning properly. On Windows or Unix, I know how to stack-trace and debug apps … so she figured I’d be all set up to do the same thing on Android too. Except I’ve never encountered a problem that required debugging Android apps. Consult the universal archive of all IT knowledge (a.k.a. Google).<\/p>\n
I don’t have the Android developer kit installed, nor do I need it, so I elected to use “Minimal ADB and Fastboot<\/a>” to grab the log data. My device did not show up without a Windows driver for the\u00a0debug bridge<\/a>. Once the driver was installed and the adb server restarted, my device appeared.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Something interesting about the adb log data – it can include an hour or more of history. Which is awesome if your app crashed a few minutes ago and you want to capture historic data, but for a reproducible error … well, there’s no need to slog through thousands of lines to find where the problem actually started. Clear the log buffers first then start capturing the adb log data:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A friend has an Android application that isn’t functioning properly. On Windows or Unix, I know how to stack-trace and debug apps … so she figured I’d be all set up to do the same thing on Android too. Except I’ve never encountered a problem that required debugging Android apps. Consult the universal archive of …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[562,560,561],"class_list":["post-3028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coding","tag-adb","tag-debugging-android","tag-logcat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3028"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3031,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3028\/revisions\/3031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}C:\\Users\\lisa>\"c:\\program files (x86)\\Minimal ADB and Fastboot\\adb.exe\" kill-server\r\n\r\nC:\\Users\\lisa>\"c:\\program files (x86)\\Minimal ADB and Fastboot\\adb.exe\" start-server\r\n* daemon not running; starting now at tcp:5037\r\n* daemon started successfully\r\n\r\nC:\\Users\\lisa>\"c:\\program files (x86)\\Minimal ADB and Fastboot\\adb.exe\" devices\r\nList of devices attached\r\ng142ef0c device\r\n<\/pre>\n
\"c:\\program files (x86)\\Minimal ADB and Fastboot\\adb.exe\" logcat -b main -b system ^\r\n-b radio -b events -c&&\"c:\\program files (x86)\\Minimal ADB and Fastboot\\adb.exe\" logcat ^\r\n-v threadtime -f \"C:\\temp\\SessionLog.txt\"<\/pre>\n