What are the contents of logcat file?

Question

I have to parse the logcat output for my android application.So i wanted to know logcat content. I surfed a lot but i don't a proper answer. what are the logcat contents and when the system writes the logcat file?

Thanks Pushpa

Answer 1

There's no api that I know of to read the logcat directly into your program. The easiest thing to do is to run logcat externally from your app and collect the results. One example of how to do that is here (see LogcatProcessor.java). Another, more elaborate, version is here (see SendLogActivity.java).

You will need this line in your manifest:

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_LOGS" />