Cleaner Logging for Android Studio

[chrisjdev]

Feature Request

Only print a console.log message once to the Android Studio Logcat

Motivation Behind Feature

Cleaner logs allow for easier searching (no need to divide by 2 to figure out how many times something has printed), and easier readability while it's running.

Feature Description

I've been mildly annoyed by each console.log message being duplicated in the logs displayed by Logcat and Run tabs in Android Studio for a while. Today, I noticed it's coming from from SystemWebChromeClient.java, onConsoleMessage(). I found that I can enable just one or the other by either only return the super call, or modified to return true instead of the super call. I was hoping it would optionally be controlled by a config item, assuming there's customers for each type of log message. Or maybe no one needs both messages and it can be updated to only log one or the other.

Alternatives or Workarounds

I've heard of some people using a custom regex filter to get to cleaner logs, or using Chrome's debugger.

[breautek]

I've reproduced this with a simple cordova app running console.log("test"); in the web inspector, which produces the output:

2020-04-11 21:44:15.521 5920-5920/io.cordova.hellocordova D/SystemWebChromeClient: : Line 1 : test
2020-04-11 21:44:15.522 5920-5920/io.cordova.hellocordova I/chromium: [INFO:CONSOLE(1)] "test", source:  (1)

In the logcat. I agree, we can probably remove the logcat print from SystemWebChromeClient.