I also would have preferred for the normal use of System.out and System.err, but the Android way does force developers to use a more proper logging api which is not necessarily a bad thing.
On Apr 5, 8:20 am, Anil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't think you understood my suggestion. Even if it is Dalvik, it > can behave in a standard manner that a generation of Java programmers > expects. After all, we are using Java 1.5. There is a further benefit > in production as listed above. > > On Apr 4, 11:56 pm, Andrex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > It's because the Android code isn't really Java, it's Dalvik, and the > > Android emultator makes you report those things to the Dalvik output. > > You yourself listed the process to print errors there, I suggest you > > use it. ;) > > > On Apr 4, 7:34 pm, Anil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > It would be good for Android phones to have a rolling log file that > > > doubles as a console. > > > That way, when there are problems with applications in production, the > > > user can simply push the logs to a server - just as Microsoft does > > > now. > > > It is weird for developers to not have familiar tools like > > > e.printstacktrace() or System.out.println(). > > > Instead we have something rather inconvenient to use: > > > >http://code.google.com/android/reference/adb.html > > > > "By default, the Android system sends stdout and stderr (System.out > > > and System.err) output to /dev/null. In processes that run the Dalvik > > > VM, you can have the system write a copy of the output to the log > > > file. In this case, the system writes the messages to the log using > > > the log tags stdout and stderr, both with priority I. > > > > To route the output in this way, you stop a running emulator/device > > > instance and then use the shell command setprop to enable the > > > redirection of output. Here's how you do it: > > > > $ adb shell stop > > > $ adb shell setprop log.redirect-stdio true > > > $ adb shell start" > > > > thanks, > > > Anil --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Announcing the new M5 SDK! http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2008/02/android-sdk-m5-rc14-now-available.html For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
