Reputation: 4029

Android studio logcat nothing to show

I installed Android Studio yesterday, and I tried to use the LogCat to see the logs. But there is nothing to show in the logcat. I used the terminal to run ./adb logcat and it works.

Is there someone who can explain to me how to use logcat in Android Studio?

Upvotes: 368

Answers (30)

ibyte

Reputation: 471

Upon running adb logcat, I realised that the emulator wouldn't show any logs unless it was the only device connected to Android Studio. I simply unplugged the other connected testing devices and it started running flawlessly.

Upvotes: 0

Jean Raymond Daher

Reputation: 394

open the terminal and type adb logcat make sure you have one device connected.

Upvotes: 0

Areeba Qurashi

Reputation: 119

Check the LogCat Sitteng in My case i Uncheck every thing which make issu from me

Again i check everything which works for me

Upvotes: 0

Damnjan Markovic

Reputation: 37

Make sure you have selected the correct emulator and that field right next to emulator selector is not empty (in the Logcat console).

Upvotes: 0

humazed

Reputation: 76962

For me disabling Verify apps over USB and Verify bytecode of debuggable apps helped me to make the logcat much more reliable.

Upvotes: 1

Nanang Fitrianto

Reputation: 688

if you use Android Emulator, you can Wipe Data then start the emulator again. only this work for me

Upvotes: 0

Mahmut K.

Reputation: 850

Disable and uninstall any plugins that you have recently installed and are not using.

Upvotes: 0

Ahad Porkar

Reputation: 1708

Also be careful for this bad boy (even with Restart of android studio not disappeared):

Upvotes: 2

AMT

Reputation: 144

Check for space in the log-tag. If your tag consist of spaces then remove the space and then run. You will be able to view logs.

Upvotes: 0

Raslanove

Reputation: 689

When everything else didn't work, here's what I did. Since adb logcat worked nicely, I decided to rely on it. Running adb logcat -v color in the Android Studio's embedded terminal produced outputs similar to the normal logcat, and allowed code links to work too:

But this came with a few issues:

You can't specify a package to watch. Using the --pid=<your PID> option, you can watch the output of a single process. But since every time you restart your app the PID changes, you have re-run this command with every restart.
The colors are annoying (in my opinion).
The output fields are not aligned with previous messages, the whole thing is not well formatted which makes following the logcat much harder than it should be (the same happens with the embedded logcat, though).

So I decided to make my own tool to automatically watch my package PID(s) and prettify the logcat output:

import java.awt.AWTException;
import java.io.*;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.awt.Robot;
import java.awt.event.KeyEvent;

public class Logcat {

    private static final String ADB_FILE_PATH = "adb";

    // Customizations,
    private static final Color     V_COLOR = Color.RESET;
    private static final Color     D_COLOR = Color.RESET;
    private static final Color     I_COLOR = Color.RESET;
    private static final Color     W_COLOR = Color.BLUE;
    private static final Color     E_COLOR = Color.RED_BRIGHT;
    private static final Color  HINT_COLOR = Color.MAGENTA_BOLD_BRIGHT;
    private static final Color OTHER_COLOR = Color.GREEN_BOLD_BRIGHT;

    private static final int       DATE_LENGTH =   5;
    private static final int       TIME_LENGTH =  12;
    private static final int PROCESS_ID_LENGTH =   5;
    private static final int  THREAD_ID_LENGTH =   5;
    private static final int  LOG_LEVEL_LENGTH =   1;
    private static final int        TAG_LENGTH =  20;
    private static final int    MESSAGE_LENGTH = 110;

    private static final String SEPARATOR = " | ";
    private static final String CONTINUATION = "→";
    private static final String INDENTATION = "  ";

    private static final int PROCESS_IDS_UPDATE_INTERVAL_MILLIS = 1224;

    private static final int HISTORY_LENGTH = 1000;

    // State,
    private static boolean skipProcessIDCheck;
    private static ArrayList<String> processIDs = new ArrayList<String>();

    private static String logLevelToShow="V";  // All.

    private static Process logcatProcess;
    private static boolean appClosed;
    private static boolean stopEverything;

    private static String[] history = new String[HISTORY_LENGTH];
    private static int currentLocationInHistory, historyLength;

    public static void main(final String args[]) {

        clearAndroidStudioConsole();
        System.out.println("besm Allah");

        // Get processes ids of the provided package,
        if (args.length==0) {
            skipProcessIDCheck = true;
        } else {
            skipProcessIDCheck = false;
            getProcessIDs    (args[0]);    // Do it once before we start.
            monitorProcessIDs(args[0]);    // Do it periodically from now on.
        }

        // Start capturing and prettifying logcat,
        if (!monitorLogcat()) {
            stopEverything = true;
            return;
        }

        // Handle user input,
        handleUserInput();
    }

    private static void watch(final Process process, final ProcessListener listener) {

        // Read process standard output and send it to the listener line by line,
        new Thread() {
            public void run() {
                BufferedReader bufferedReader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(process.getInputStream()));
                String line = "";
                try {
                    do {
                        if (bufferedReader.ready()) {
                            line = bufferedReader.readLine();
                            if (line!=null && !line.isEmpty()) listener.onNewLine(line);
                        } else {
                            Thread.sleep(100);
                        }
                    } while (line!=null && !stopEverything);
                } catch (Exception e) { e.printStackTrace(); }
            }
        }.start();
    }

    private static void monitorProcessIDs(String packageName) {

        // Continuously monitor the process IDs of this package and update when changed,
        new Thread() {
            public void run() {
                do {
                    try { Thread.sleep(PROCESS_IDS_UPDATE_INTERVAL_MILLIS); } catch (InterruptedException e) {}
                    getProcessIDs(packageName);
                } while (!stopEverything);
            }
        }.start();
    }

    private static void getProcessIDs(String packageName) {

        // Get the process IDs associated with this package once,
        ArrayList<String> newProcessIDs = new ArrayList<String>();
        Runtime runtime = Runtime.getRuntime();
        try {
            Process getPIDProcess = runtime.exec(ADB_FILE_PATH + " shell ps");
            watch(getPIDProcess, (line) -> {
                if (line.contains(packageName)) {
                    newProcessIDs.add(removeRedundantSpaces(line).split(" ")[1]);
                }
            });
            getPIDProcess.waitFor();
            Thread.sleep(500);  // Make sure we've already handled all the input from the process.
        } catch (Exception e) { e.printStackTrace(); }

        // Return immediately if program is closed,
        if (stopEverything) return ;

        // Some action upon getting the pid(s),
        boolean shouldRepeatHistory = false;
        if (newProcessIDs.isEmpty()) {

            // Just closed,
            if (!appClosed) {
                appClosed = true;
                prettify("----- App closed -----");
            }
        } else if (appClosed) {

            // Just opened, clear,
            appClosed = false;
            clearAndroidStudioConsole();
            prettify("----- App opened -----");
            shouldRepeatHistory = true;
        } else {

            // Detect changes in processes,
            for (String pid : newProcessIDs) {
                if (!processIDs.contains(pid)) {
                    clearAndroidStudioConsole();
                    prettify("----- Process(es) changed (or app restarted - some logs could have been missed) -----");
                    shouldRepeatHistory = true;
                    break ;
                }
            }
        }

        // Set the new PID(s),
        processIDs = newProcessIDs;
        if (shouldRepeatHistory) repeatHistory();
    }

    private static boolean monitorLogcat() {

        Runtime runtime = Runtime.getRuntime();
        try {
            logcatProcess = runtime.exec(ADB_FILE_PATH + " logcat -v threadtime");
            watch(logcatProcess, (line) -> {

                // Learn history, in case we need to repeat it,
                if (appClosed || processLogcatLine(line)) {
                    history[currentLocationInHistory] = line;
                    currentLocationInHistory = (currentLocationInHistory + 1) % history.length;
                    if (historyLength<history.length) historyLength++;
                }
            });
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
            return false;
        }

        return true;
    }

    private static boolean processLogcatLine(String line) {
        try {
            return prettify(line);
        } catch (Exception e) {
            print(line, OTHER_COLOR);
            System.out.println();

            // Debug,
            e.printStackTrace();
            return true;
        }
    }

    // Returns true if line should be kept in history,
    private static synchronized boolean prettify(String line) {

        if (line.startsWith("-")) {
            // It's a "beginning of <something>" line,
            print(line, HINT_COLOR);
            System.out.println();
            return true;
        }

        // Get the individual fields,
        String      date = line.substring(0, line.indexOf(' ')); line = line.substring(line.indexOf(' ')+1); line = line.trim();
        String      time = line.substring(0, line.indexOf(' ')); line = line.substring(line.indexOf(' ')+1); line = line.trim();
        String processID = line.substring(0, line.indexOf(' ')); line = line.substring(line.indexOf(' ')+1); line = line.trim();

        // Break early if possible,
        if (!skipProcessIDCheck && !processIDs.contains(processID.trim())) return false;

        // Continue parsing,
        String  threadID = line.substring(0, line.indexOf(' ')); line = line.substring(line.indexOf(' ')+1); line = line.trim();
        String  logLevel = line.substring(0, line.indexOf(' ')); line = line.substring(line.indexOf(' ')+1); line = line.trim();

        // Break early if possible,
        switch (logLevel) {
            case "V": if (!"V"    .contains(logLevelToShow)) return true; break;
            case "D": if (!"VD"   .contains(logLevelToShow)) return true; break;
            case "I": if (!"VDI"  .contains(logLevelToShow)) return true; break;
            case "W": if (!"VDIW" .contains(logLevelToShow)) return true; break;
            case "E": if (!"VDIWE".contains(logLevelToShow)) return true; break;
        }

        // Continue parsing,
        String       tag = line.substring(0, line.indexOf(':')); line = line.substring(line.indexOf(':')+1); line = line.trim();

        // Because some tags have a trailing ":",
        if (line.startsWith(":")) {
            tag += ":";
            line = line.substring(1);
        }

        // Indent lines starting by "at",
        String indentation = "";
        if (line.startsWith("at ")) {
            indentation = "   " + INDENTATION;
            line = " " + INDENTATION + line;
        }

        // Print the prettified log,
        Color color;
        switch (logLevel) {
            case "V": color = V_COLOR; break;
            case "D": color = D_COLOR; break;
            case "I": color = I_COLOR; break;
            case "W": color = W_COLOR; break;
            case "E": color = E_COLOR; break;
            default:
                color = Color.RESET;
        }

        String fields = adjustLength(     date,       DATE_LENGTH) + SEPARATOR +
                        adjustLength(     time,       TIME_LENGTH) + SEPARATOR +
                        adjustLength(processID, PROCESS_ID_LENGTH) + SEPARATOR +
                        adjustLength( threadID,  THREAD_ID_LENGTH) + SEPARATOR +
                        adjustLength( logLevel,  LOG_LEVEL_LENGTH) + SEPARATOR +
                        adjustLength(      tag,        TAG_LENGTH) + SEPARATOR;

        // Split the message onto multiple lines if needed,
        String message = chunkPreservingParentheses(line, MESSAGE_LENGTH, 2);
        print(fields + message, color);
        System.out.println();

        while (line.length() > message.length()) {

            // Debug,
            //print(line, OTHER_COLOR);
            //System.out.println("Line: " + line.length() + "length: " + message.length() + ", cont: " + CONTINUATION.length() + "dent: " + indentation.length());
            //System.out.println();

            // Remove the already printed part.
            line = line.substring(message.length()-CONTINUATION.length());

            // Add a dot to make links work,
            boolean shouldAddDot=false;
            if (line.matches("^[^\\.]*\\(.*:[123456789][1234567890]*\\).*")) shouldAddDot = true;

            // Indent,
            line = (shouldAddDot ? "." : (indentation.isEmpty() ? "" : " ")) + indentation + line;

            // Take another chunk,
            message = chunkPreservingParentheses(line, MESSAGE_LENGTH, 2+indentation.length());

            // Front pad to align this part with the message body,
            String paddedMessage = message;
            for (int i=0; i<fields.length(); i++) paddedMessage = ' ' + paddedMessage;

            // Print,
            print(paddedMessage, color);
            System.out.println();
        }

        return true;  // Keep in local buffer.
    }

    private static String adjustLength(String text, int length) {
        while (text.length() < length) text += ' ';
        if (text.length() > length) {
            text = text.substring(0, length-CONTINUATION.length());
            text += CONTINUATION;
        }
        return text;
    }

    private static String chunkPreservingParentheses(String text, int length, int minChunckLength) {

        if (text.length() <= length) return text;

        // Take a chunk out of the text,
        String chunk = text.substring(0, length-CONTINUATION.length()) + CONTINUATION;

        // Check if a paranthesis was opened and not closed,
        int lastOpenParanthesisIndex = chunk.lastIndexOf('(');
        int lastCloseParanthesisIndex = chunk.lastIndexOf(')');
        if (lastCloseParanthesisIndex <= lastOpenParanthesisIndex) {  // Also works when either is not found.
            if (minChunckLength<1) minChunckLength = 1;
            if (lastOpenParanthesisIndex > minChunckLength+CONTINUATION.length()) { // Avoid endless loops.
                int includeParenthesisSize = (CONTINUATION.length()>0) ? 1 : 0;
                chunk = text.substring(0, lastOpenParanthesisIndex+includeParenthesisSize-CONTINUATION.length()) + CONTINUATION;
            }
        }

        return chunk;
    }

    private static void repeatHistory() {
        int index = currentLocationInHistory-historyLength;
        if (index < 0) index += history.length;
        for (int i=0; i<historyLength; i++) {
            processLogcatLine(history[index]);
            index = (index + 1) % history.length;
        }
    }

    private static void print(String text, Color color) {
        System.out.print(color);
        System.out.print(text);
        System.out.print(Color.RESET);
    }

    private static String removeRedundantSpaces(String text) {
        String newText = text.replace("  ", " ");
        while (!text.equals(newText)) {
            text = newText;
            newText = text.replace("  ", " ");
        }
        return text;
    }

    private static void clearAndroidStudioConsole() {

        // Couldn't find a reliable way to clear Intellij terminal scrollback, so we just print
        // a LOT of newlines,
        StringBuilder bunchOfNewLines = new StringBuilder();
        for (int i=0; i<124; i++) bunchOfNewLines.append(System.lineSeparator());
        System.out.print(bunchOfNewLines);

        // Scroll the current line to the top of the window,
        try {
            // If we are on Windows,
            new ProcessBuilder("cmd", "/c", "cls").inheritIO().start().waitFor();
        } catch (Exception e) {

            // We are not on Windows,
            bunchOfNewLines = new StringBuilder();
            for (int i=0; i<124; i++) bunchOfNewLines.append("\b\r");
            System.out.print(bunchOfNewLines);
        }
    }

    private static void handleUserInput() {

        // Line read. Unfortunately, java doesn't provide character by character reading out of the box.
        BufferedReader bufferedReader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));
        String input = "";
        do {
            try {
                if (bufferedReader.ready()) {
                    input = input = bufferedReader.readLine().toUpperCase();

                    // Set log level,
                    if (input.equals("V")||input.equals("D")||input.equals("I")||input.equals("W")||input.equals("E")) {

                        if (!logLevelToShow.equals(input)) {
                            logLevelToShow = input;
                            clearAndroidStudioConsole();
                            repeatHistory();
                        }

                        prettify("----- Log level set to " + logLevelToShow + " -----");

                    } else if (input.equals("C")) {

                        // Clear screen and history,
                        clearAndroidStudioConsole();
                        historyLength = 0;
                    }
                } else {
                    Thread.sleep(100);
                }
            } catch (Exception e) { e.printStackTrace(); }

            // Check if the logcat process is still alive,
            if (!logcatProcess.isAlive()) {
                prettify("----- adb logcat process terminated -----");
                stopEverything = true;
            }

        } while (!stopEverything && !input.equals("Q"));

        // Allow all monitoring threads to exit,
        stopEverything = true;
    }

    interface ProcessListener {
        void onNewLine(String line);
    }

    enum Color {

        // Thanks to this answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/51944613/1942069

        //Color end string, color reset
        RESET("\033[0m"),

        // Regular Colors. Normal color, no bold, background color etc.
        BLACK  ("\033[0;30m"),
        RED    ("\033[0;31m"),
        GREEN  ("\033[0;32m"),
        YELLOW ("\033[0;33m"),
        BLUE   ("\033[0;34m"),
        MAGENTA("\033[0;35m"),
        CYAN   ("\033[0;36m"),
        WHITE  ("\033[0;37m"),

        // Bold
        BLACK_BOLD  ("\033[1;30m"),
        RED_BOLD    ("\033[1;31m"),
        GREEN_BOLD  ("\033[1;32m"),
        YELLOW_BOLD ("\033[1;33m"),
        BLUE_BOLD   ("\033[1;34m"),
        MAGENTA_BOLD("\033[1;35m"),
        CYAN_BOLD   ("\033[1;36m"),
        WHITE_BOLD  ("\033[1;37m"),

        // Underline
        BLACK_UNDERLINED  ("\033[4;30m"),
        RED_UNDERLINED    ("\033[4;31m"),
        GREEN_UNDERLINED  ("\033[4;32m"),
        YELLOW_UNDERLINED ("\033[4;33m"),
        BLUE_UNDERLINED   ("\033[4;34m"),
        MAGENTA_UNDERLINED("\033[4;35m"),
        CYAN_UNDERLINED   ("\033[4;36m"),
        WHITE_UNDERLINED  ("\033[4;37m"),

        // Background
        BLACK_BACKGROUND  ("\033[40m"),
        RED_BACKGROUND    ("\033[41m"),
        GREEN_BACKGROUND  ("\033[42m"),
        YELLOW_BACKGROUND ("\033[43m"),
        BLUE_BACKGROUND   ("\033[44m"),
        MAGENTA_BACKGROUND("\033[45m"),
        CYAN_BACKGROUND   ("\033[46m"),
        WHITE_BACKGROUND  ("\033[47m"),

        // High Intensity
        BLACK_BRIGHT  ("\033[0;90m"),
        RED_BRIGHT    ("\033[0;91m"),
        GREEN_BRIGHT  ("\033[0;92m"),
        YELLOW_BRIGHT ("\033[0;93m"),
        BLUE_BRIGHT   ("\033[0;94m"),
        MAGENTA_BRIGHT("\033[0;95m"),
        CYAN_BRIGHT   ("\033[0;96m"),
        WHITE_BRIGHT  ("\033[0;97m"),

        // Bold High Intensity
        BLACK_BOLD_BRIGHT  ("\033[1;90m"),
        RED_BOLD_BRIGHT    ("\033[1;91m"),
        GREEN_BOLD_BRIGHT  ("\033[1;92m"),
        YELLOW_BOLD_BRIGHT ("\033[1;93m"),
        BLUE_BOLD_BRIGHT   ("\033[1;94m"),
        MAGENTA_BOLD_BRIGHT("\033[1;95m"),
        CYAN_BOLD_BRIGHT   ("\033[1;96m"),
        WHITE_BOLD_BRIGHT  ("\033[1;97m"),

        // High Intensity backgrounds
        BLACK_BACKGROUND_BRIGHT  ("\033[0;100m"),
        RED_BACKGROUND_BRIGHT    ("\033[0;101m"),
        GREEN_BACKGROUND_BRIGHT  ("\033[0;102m"),
        YELLOW_BACKGROUND_BRIGHT ("\033[0;103m"),
        BLUE_BACKGROUND_BRIGHT   ("\033[0;104m"),
        MAGENTA_BACKGROUND_BRIGHT("\033[0;105m"),
        CYAN_BACKGROUND_BRIGHT   ("\033[0;106m"),
        WHITE_BACKGROUND_BRIGHT  ("\033[0;107m");

        private final String code;

        Color(String code) { this.code = code; }
        @Override public String toString() { return code; }
    }
}

Just dump this code into Logcat.java and compile using:

javac Logcat.java

And run inside the Android Studio's embedded terminal:

java Logcat <your.package.name>

For example:

java Logcat com.nomone.vr_desktop

The result looks like this:

It's highly customizable, I've separated most of the options in the first section of the app, so you can tweak the colors and formatting easily. If the adb tool is not in your PATH environment variable, just set its full path in the ADB_FILE_PATH variable (in the code) before compiling.

When the application is running, you can type the following shortcuts:

c to clear the screen and local buffer.
v, i, d, w, e to change the logcat level.
q to quit gracefully. Ctrl+c works too.

Unfortunately, you have to press enter after pressing these keys. Seems like Java doesn't allow single character input from console without writing system specific code. Sorry!

Disclaimer

This doesn't work if multiple devices are connected using adb.
I haven't thoroughly tested this. I've only used it for a while on a few devices.
I haven't tested this on Windows or Mac, but I tried to avoid using anything system specific, so it should still work.

I hope this solves your problem :)

Upvotes: 8

Huy Nguyen

Reputation: 1109

For Windows user:

Use this script tool. Make sure you have already set the ADB env for the system. Android Logcat script

Save to bat file
Edit file. Replace com.example.abc with your package id
Double click to open the file or open via MobaXTerm (for easy find the text)

p/s: Let's star my repo if this answer is helpful. Thanks!

Upvotes: 0

Tarif Chakder

Reputation: 1856

Restart your logcat . It will fixed

Upvotes: 0

Pablo Alfonso

Reputation: 2465

In Android 3.6.1 I had to:

Upgrade to latest Android Studio version (4.x.x)
Restart Logcat
Restart the app
Restart Android Studio
Restart the Android testing device

Upvotes: 5

remain4life

Reputation: 1311

In addition to all great answers: make sure that you import right BuildConfig if you use it. I'm using BuildConfig.DEBUG, so one day my IDE automatically imported the wrong class

import com.google.firebase.BuildConfig;

or it may be

import com.adjust.sdk.BuildConfig;

After changing import to the right one everything was fine:

import com.yourapp.BuildConfig;

Upvotes: 0

Ashif

Reputation: 471

Step 1: Connect Your Phone with Android Developer option On and USB Debug On.

Step 2: Go TO View > Tools Window > Logcat

Step 3: Before Run Project Make Sure Your Phone Connect Android Studio. Then run application

Note: If You Can not Show Logcat Just Restart Android Studio : File > Invalid Caches/ restart

Upvotes: 4

enLighter Programmer

Reputation: 413

You may put some text in the search and filter out the Logcat result.
That was the reason for my problem :)

Upvotes: 0

user12465043

Reputation:

I checked the answer and only found my mistake accidentally while checking my logcat. Make sure the box on the right says "Show only selected application". Mine was showing "Firebase", so it showed me messages from Firebase.

Upvotes: 3

Richard Miller

Reputation: 616

Rebooting the phone I was testing fixed the issue.

I used an old LG4 with Android 6.

I tried unplugging and plugging again, restarting Android Studio, restarting the logcat, invalidating caches - Nothing worked.

Upvotes: 1

ABHISHEKA GOPAL

Reputation: 308

In my case I was sending empty tag i.e

Log.d("","My Log");

Instead send a tag name

Log.d("Class name","My Log");

Hope it helps someone

Upvotes: 1

Finnrir

Reputation: 25

Well I've tried all of the other answers and nothing is working for poor logcat. My issue with logcat is that it never worked to begin with. From the time I installed Android studio and finally was able to connect a device to adb it never gave me output. It's probably caused by my borked 32 bit Windows 7 setup though... So I wrote a batch script to run through the terminal to run apps with logcat.

adb shell am start -n "com.package.name/com.package.name.Activity" -a android.intent.action.MAIN -c android.intent.category.LAUNCHER
adb shell pidof com.package.name > pid
for /f %%i in (pid) do (set pid=%%i)
echo %pid%
adb logcat *:V --pid=%pid%
ENDLOCAL

Put this with corrected directory paths and package names into a logcat.bat(or whatever.bat) file.

place the file in your AndroidStudioProjects/package_name/ folder then you can run

C:\User\me\AndroidStudioProjects\package_name>logcat(or whatever)

in the terminal.

Note that you can change what the logcat displays by changing

*:V

In the adb logcat command. (example *:E shows only (E)rror tags).

I hope this was helpful to someone else.

Upvotes: 0

Sajid Zeb

Reputation: 1978

Run this command in terminal. It will start working again.

adb kill-server && adb start-server

Upvotes: 33

Santiago Battaglino

Reputation: 487

Make sure you have Logger buffer sizes propper value in your emulator developer menu option.

Upvotes: 14

sziraqui

Reputation: 6132

It's weird to still encounter this problem even on a recent version of Android Studio. I read through the long list of solutions but they did not work for me. The accepted answer worked on an earlier version of Android Studio ( I guess it was v2.3)

I did the following to get Logcat working again:

Logcat > Show only selected application > No filters

Logcat > No filters > Show only selected application

I expected resetting logcat should ideally give me the same effect but it didn't. Manually toggling filter was the only thing that worked.

This is on Android Studio 3.0.1 (stable) (I can't update it before finishing the current project) The issue occurred when I started Android studio in the morning to continue the work I left at night. I hope the devs will look into this. It was painstaking to try over 15 solutions from stackoverflow and still see no result. It's even irritating to reveal another solution for future victims of this issue.

Upvotes: 7

Android Admirer

Reputation: 2380

For me, the problem was that the device was connected in the Charge only mode.

Changing the mode to Media device (MTP) (or Transfer files in some devices) solved the problem.

Upvotes: 4

0xC0DED00D

Reputation: 20368

You need to press Alt+6 twice to restart the logcat window. That way it'll show the log outputs.

The problem mainly happens in debug mode.

Upvotes: 68

Manish Butola

Reputation: 567

Restarting Android Studio helped me.

Upvotes: 17

MGLabs

Reputation: 91

That occasionally occurs to me while using emulator. I just plug in a device and run the app. The Logcat gets back to work and so it does when I get back to the emulator. I guess that just switching two devices and/or emulators does the trick as well.

Upvotes: 2

Syuqri

Reputation: 84

I tried the suggestions above. However, none of them worked. I then did the following which surprisingly worked:

Disconnect the USB from the device
Connected the device via Wi-Fi using the commands adb tcpip 5555 and adb connect <device ip>
Disconnected the device from the adb using adb kill-server
Connected the device back via USB

The LogCat then showed the logs. Even though the logs were available at step 2, the following steps resolved the issue for me when connecting via USB.

Upvotes: 1

Vinayak

Reputation: 439

First make Sure developer option is enabled in your device.
Device is connected.
Verbose.
Show Only Selected application.

Upvotes: 2

Pamela Sillah

Reputation: 193

In my case, I removed "image" from the little dropdown on the right. It showed up just fine after that. That's because it will be searching the log for the keyword in that searchbox, so if it doesn't find any matches, it returns blank

Upvotes: 7

Android studio logcat nothing to show

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