Android Snooper vs Pidcat

Android Snooper

Android library to record the network calls through the interceptor mechanism of the http clients. (by jainsahab)

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Pidcat

Colored logcat script which only shows log entries for a specific application package. (by JakeWharton)

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Android Snooper		Pidcat
	Project
-	Mentions	3
159	Stars	4,785
-	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	0.0
about 2 years ago	Latest Commit	about 2 months ago
Kotlin	Language	Python
Apache License 2.0	License	Apache License 2.0

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Android Snooper

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Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

Pidcat

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Android Studio Giraffe Canary 10 now available
1 project | /r/androiddev | 21 Mar 2023

I've been using pidcat in a terminal for years and would recommend it in place of whatever logcat of the day in AS.
Why is Android Studio so buggy and Android development so frustrating? I spend 25-50% of my day solving Google's bugs
1 project | /r/androiddev | 7 Nov 2022

It's been a while I did not experience major issue in AS, for a large 100% Java app. Using the latest Canaries and keeping it up to date. In 10 years of Android dev, i've never had to use a debugger. Instead I rely on verbose logging, including for troubleshooting issues reported by user when they provide a log file on demand. For logcat logging, I've been using pidcat for years in a terminal. The app being just 100% Java avoids a lot of possible problems and builds fast. I actually think the AS team and generally Android tools teams (with special mention for people maintaining R8/D8/Desugar) have been doing a good job with it these past years.
#Android QuickTip: Make logcat awesome
1 project | /r/androiddev | 28 Jul 2022

pidcat is also great for filtering out all the junk without using tags

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Android Snooper and Pidcat you can also consider the following projects:

Stetho

Traceur - Easier RxJava2 debugging with better stacktraces

Android Debug Bridge - ADB

Android Debug Database - A library for debugging android databases and shared preferences - Make Debugging Great Again

Android DebugPort - A Read-Eval-Print-Loop server for Android and SQLite

ADB Enhanced - 🔪Swiss-army knife for Android testing and development 🔪 ⛺

traffic monitor - traffic debugging library for android

Linx - Lynx is an Android library created to show a custom view with all the information Android logcat is printing, different traces of different levels will be rendererd to show from log messages to your application exceptions. You can filter this traces, share your logcat to other apps, configure the max number of traces to show or the sampling rate used by the library.