How can I see long texts/msg in logcat?
This is the way I solved the problem. Hope it helps.
The important method for using it inside your code is splitAndLog.
public class Utils { /** * Divides a string into chunks of a given character size. * * @param text String text to be sliced * @param sliceSize int Number of characters * @return ArrayList<String> Chunks of strings */ public static ArrayList<String> splitString(String text, int sliceSize) { ArrayList<String> textList = new ArrayList<String>(); String aux; int left = -1, right = 0; int charsLeft = text.length(); while (charsLeft != 0) { left = right; if (charsLeft >= sliceSize) { right += sliceSize; charsLeft -= sliceSize; } else { right = text.length(); aux = text.substring(left, right); charsLeft = 0; } aux = text.substring(left, right); textList.add(aux); } return textList; } /** * Divides a string into chunks. * * @param text String text to be sliced * @return ArrayList<String> */ public static ArrayList<String> splitString(String text) { return splitString(text, 80); } /** * Divides the string into chunks for displaying them * into the Eclipse's LogCat. * * @param text The text to be split and shown in LogCat * @param tag The tag in which it will be shown. */ public static void splitAndLog(String tag, String text) { ArrayList<String> messageList = Utils.splitString(text); for (String message : messageList) { Log.d(tag, message); } }}
I never use the GUI to view logcat output, so I'm not sure where/whether there are scrollbars in the DDMS/Eclipse UI.
Anyway, you can use logcat from the command line — there are loads of options.
To watch the log of an active device continually: adb logcat
To dump the whole log: adb logcat -d
To dump the whole log to a file: adb logcat -d > log.txt
To filter and display a particular log tag: adb logcat -s MyLogTag
...and much more!