How do I enable/disable log levels in Android?

Question

I am having lots of logging statements to debug for example.

Log.v(TAG, "Message here");
Log.w(TAG, " WARNING HERE");

while deploying this application on device phone i want to turn off the verbose logging from where i can enable/disable logging.

Answer 1

Log4j or slf4j can also be used as logging frameworks in Android together with logcat. See the project android-logging-log4j or log4j support in android

Answer 2

Another way is to use a logging platform that has the capabilities of opening and closing logs. This can give much of flexibility sometimes even on a production app which logs should be open and which closed depending on which issues you have for example:

• LumberJack
• Shipbook (disclaimer: I'm the author of this package)

Answer 3

We can use class Log in our local component and define the methods as v/i/e/d. Based on the need of we can make call further.
example is shown below.

    public class Log{
        private static boolean TAG = false;
        public static void d(String enable_tag, String message,Object...args){
            if(TAG)
            android.util.Log.d(enable_tag, message+args);
        }
        public static void e(String enable_tag, String message,Object...args){
            if(TAG)
            android.util.Log.e(enable_tag, message+args);
        }
        public static void v(String enable_tag, String message,Object...args){
            if(TAG)
            android.util.Log.v(enable_tag, message+args);
        }
    }
    if we do not need any print(s), at-all make TAG as false for all else 
    remove the check for type of Log (say Log.d).
    as 
    public static void i(String enable_tag, String message,Object...args){
    //      if(TAG)
            android.util.Log.i(enable_tag, message+args);
    }

here message is for string and and args is the value you want to print.

Answer 4

I created a Utility/Wrapper which solves this problem + other common problems around Logging.

A Debugging utility with the following features:

• The usual features provided by Log class wrapped around by LogMode s.
• Method Entry-Exit logs: Can be turned off by a switch
• Selective Debugging: Debug specific classes.
• Method Execution-Time Measurement: Measure Execution time for individual methods as well as collective time spent on all methods of a class.

How To Use?

• Include the class in your project.
• Use it like you use android.util.Log methods, to start with.
• Use the Entry-Exit logs feature by placing calls to entry_log()-exit_log() methods at the beginning and ending of methods in your app.

I have tried to make the documentation self suffiecient.

Suggestions to improve this Utility are welcome.

Free to use/share.

Download it from GitHub.

Answer 5

Here is a more complex solution. You will get full stack trace and the method toString() will be called only if needed(Performance). The attribute BuildConfig.DEBUG will be false in the production mode so all trace and debug logs will be removed. The hot spot compiler has the chance to remove the calls because off final static properties.

import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
import java.io.PrintStream;
import android.util.Log;

public class Logger {

    public enum Level {
        error, warn, info, debug, trace
    }

    private static final String DEFAULT_TAG = "Project";

    private static final Level CURRENT_LEVEL = BuildConfig.DEBUG ? Level.trace : Level.info;

    private static boolean isEnabled(Level l) {
        return CURRENT_LEVEL.compareTo(l) >= 0;
    }

    static {
        Log.i(DEFAULT_TAG, "log level: " + CURRENT_LEVEL.name());
    }

    private String classname = DEFAULT_TAG;

    public void setClassName(Class<?> c) {
        classname = c.getSimpleName();
    }

    public String getClassname() {
        return classname;
    }

    public boolean isError() {
        return isEnabled(Level.error);
    }

    public boolean isWarn() {
        return isEnabled(Level.warn);
    }

    public boolean isInfo() {
        return isEnabled(Level.info);
    }

    public boolean isDebug() {
        return isEnabled(Level.debug);
    }

    public boolean isTrace() {
        return isEnabled(Level.trace);
    }

    public void error(Object... args) {
        if (isError()) Log.e(buildTag(), build(args));
    }

    public void warn(Object... args) {
        if (isWarn()) Log.w(buildTag(), build(args));
    }

    public void info(Object... args) {
        if (isInfo()) Log.i(buildTag(), build(args));
    }

    public void debug(Object... args) {
        if (isDebug()) Log.d(buildTag(), build(args));
    }

    public void trace(Object... args) {
        if (isTrace()) Log.v(buildTag(), build(args));
    }

    public void error(String msg, Throwable t) {
        if (isError()) error(buildTag(), msg, stackToString(t));
    }

    public void warn(String msg, Throwable t) {
        if (isWarn()) warn(buildTag(), msg, stackToString(t));
    }

    public void info(String msg, Throwable t) {
        if (isInfo()) info(buildTag(), msg, stackToString(t));
    }

    public void debug(String msg, Throwable t) {
        if (isDebug()) debug(buildTag(), msg, stackToString(t));
    }

    public void trace(String msg, Throwable t) {
        if (isTrace()) trace(buildTag(), msg, stackToString(t));
    }

    private String buildTag() {
        String tag ;
        if (BuildConfig.DEBUG) {
            StringBuilder b = new StringBuilder(20);
            b.append(getClassname());

            StackTraceElement stackEntry = Thread.currentThread().getStackTrace()[4];
            if (stackEntry != null) {
                b.append('.');
                b.append(stackEntry.getMethodName());
                b.append(':');
                b.append(stackEntry.getLineNumber());
            }
            tag = b.toString();
        } else {
            tag = DEFAULT_TAG;
        }
    }

    private String build(Object... args) {
        if (args == null) {
            return "null";
        } else {
            StringBuilder b = new StringBuilder(args.length * 10);
            for (Object arg : args) {
                if (arg == null) {
                    b.append("null");
                } else {
                    b.append(arg);
                }
            }
            return b.toString();
        }
    }

    private String stackToString(Throwable t) {
        ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream(500);
        baos.toString();
        t.printStackTrace(new PrintStream(baos));
        return baos.toString();
    }
}

use like this:

Loggor log = new Logger();
Map foo = ...
List bar = ...
log.error("Foo:", foo, "bar:", bar);
// bad example (avoid something like this)
// log.error("Foo:" + " foo.toString() + "bar:" + bar);