A developer tool : taming the logcat with pidcat

Written by Xavier Gouchet - 11 september 2013 - no comments

LogCat is a great logging feature which is part of the core Android Developper Experience™. Most of us using an IDE use the DDMS tool to view the LogCat outputs. Some might also use directly the console with adb logcat -v long, with maybe some grep or awk to enhance the result.

Well Jake Wharton (you know, the guy behind ActionBarSherlock) developped PidCat, a Python script to print the LogCat output in the console in a usefull way. Here's how it looks like.

PidCat Screenshot

After a couple of day, I find it better than DDMS LogCat view. And what's great is that it's Open Source, so I'll probably add some features in it myself. You can download it or fork it from PidCat Github Repository.

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