LumberJack - Simple Android Logger

LumberJack is a simple logging library for Android which allows you to send log to Logcat, File System or your server (Coming soon). It's easy to start and ever easier to customise.

Features

• Logging to Logcat or File system or both
• Easy customisation
• Log only when a specified filter is satisfied
• Can programmatically disable the log

Planned feature

• More Customization support
• Sending Log data to a custom server
• Emailing Log file

Setup

LumberJack is hosted at jitpack.io. The instructions are as follows -
Step 1. Add the JitPack repository to your build file. Add it in your root build.gradle at the end of repositories:

allprojects {
	    repositories {
			...
	    	maven { url "https://jitpack.io" }
		}
}

Step 2. Add the dependency

dependencies {
        compile 'com.github.Abhi347:LumberJack:0.1.0'
  }

Usage

Just use it as you are using Log class. For eg. instead of calling Log.d(), call LumberJack.d()

LumberJack.v(tag, message);
LumberJack.d(tag, message);
LumberJack.i(tag, message);
LumberJack.w(tag, message);
LumberJack.e(tag, message);

Starting from 0.1.0 instead of LumberJack, you can also use LJ class as an alias. This can be done with all the LumberJack methods.

LJ.v(tag, message);
LJ.d(tag, message);
LJ.i(tag, message);
LJ.w(tag, message);
LJ.e(tag, message);

You can choose to skip the tag. When you do that a default tag is chosen. The current default tag is LumberJack.

LumberJack.v(message); //or LJ.v(message)
LumberJack.d(message); //or LJ.d(message)
LumberJack.i(message); //or LJ.i(message)
LumberJack.w(message); //or LJ.w(message)
LumberJack.e(message); //or LJ.e(message)

You can set Log Filtering by choosing the required Log Level -

LumberJack.setLogLevel(LogLevel.Info);

Or you can choose to disable all logging

LumberJack.setLogLevel(LogLevel.None);

Advanced Usage

The default logging is done to Logcat, you can choose to Log in a file. Please note that Logging to server is not implemented yet. First you'll have to add the required permissions in your app's AndroidManifest.xml

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

From Android 6.0 (API level 23), you'll also need to get Runtime Permissions for WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permission.

The next step is to change the log type in onCreate() method of your MainActivity.java (Or anywhere you want to change the Log Type)

LumberJack.setLogType(LogType.File);

Or if you want to have multiple LogType, you can pass an array.

LumberJack.setLogTypes(new LogType[]{LogType.Logcat, LogType.File});

Although a default file path will be chosen in your External Storage, Public Document Directory or your SD card, depending upon which version of Android you're running; it's entirely possible to change the path or just the name of the logging file. (Provided that you have permissions to write at that path).

LumberJack.setLogFilePath(fullFilePathIncludingFileNameAndExtension);

You can change the default Tag to be chosen (when a tag is not supplied with logging method)

LumberJack.setDefaultTag("Default Tag");

For more usage, please check the example module (app module) in the source.

Contributions

Feel free to report bugs, feedback or even suggest new features. I'd love to make it a great library.

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Warning

LumberJack is not a production ready library (We haven't reached 1.0.0 yet) and thus you should not use it in a production ready code. Please read the license term carefully before including it in your projects.