Android: Logging or exception stack trace on real device

Question

When testing on real Android devices, I run my application from within Eclipse and have access to the logs and errors using DDMS and LogCat.

However, there is one device I own that I cannot connect to my PC, and therefore I cannot view on DDMS.

When this application loads, it throws an Exception. However, I have no idea what this Exception is. How can I view such errors or logs on a real device?

Answer 1

Install a logcat viewer such as aLogCat . It provides various ways for you to view, save or share the log output.

Answer 2

To answer your question more generally, you can include BugSense , whenever your application crashes on your clients' devices, it will automatically send the crash report to you, including useful info like stacktrace, Android OS version, screen dimensions, device name, etc...

I didn't realize how buggy my applications really are in the field until I started using it.

Answer 3

There is a bunch of logcat reader apps - like CatLog or aLogcat, capable of viewing logs, filtering or saving them to the external storage. Just search the Market for "logcat".