Log to a file on computer in Android

It’s been a long time since the last time I blogged about something, and many things have changed since then, I graduated, got engaged and moved to Dubai. I have plenty of things in my mind to blog about, many solutions and many tools that I developed that I’d like to share it with everyone, but I haven’t settled down, and my schedule is not stable yet, so I haven’t got enough time to sort things out and start blogging, anyway this post is simple and it doesn’t need much description so I thought I’d share it with you now. Now let’s move to business, so I was working on an Android application and I needed to log some debug messages, normally I’d use Log.d(TAG, message); and this will send the message to logcat, but logcat is not useful for long messages, like for example if I needed to log the response I received from a web service, this response might be long and sending it to logcat will truncate it. ...

December 12, 2011 · 5 min · Abdullah Diab