Reputation: 9248
I am trying to read from the logcat output in my app. I am able to read in correctly, but it goes on reading it in endless loop. Somehow there seems no way to detect the end of stream.
Not sure what I am doing wrong.
Here is my code:
String baseCommand = "logcat -v time MyTag:D *:S";
Process process = null;
try {
process = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(baseCommand);
InputStreamReader reader = new InputStreamReader(process.getInputStream());
BufferedReader bufferedReader = new BufferedReader(reader);
String line;
while ((line = bufferedReader.readLine()) != null) {
Log.d("SomeOtherTag", line); //This line executes endlessly
}
} catch (IOException e) {
Log.e(DEBUG_TAG, "error in logging");
e.printStackTrace();
}
Upvotes: 0
Views: 1183
Reputation: 313
Logcat doesn't exit so the buffer is blocked.
Use 'logcat -d' in order to dump the log and then exit.
Hope this still helps, Yaron
Upvotes: 3
Reputation: 380
Not positive but I believe you need to pass the logcat call if it has args in a String[] so it would be something like
String[] baseCommand = {"logcat", "-v", "time", "MyTag:D", "*:S"};
then the rest of your code.
The single string call is just the program name, not the args.
Upvotes: 1