Pidcat
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| Pidcat | Stetho | |
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| 3 | 1 | |
| 4,785 | 12,118 | |
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| 0.0 | 0.0 | |
| about 1 month ago | about 5 years ago | |
| Python | Java | |
| Apache License 2.0 | - |
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Pidcat
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Android Studio Giraffe Canary 10 now available
I've been using pidcat in a terminal for years and would recommend it in place of whatever logcat of the day in AS.
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Why is Android Studio so buggy and Android development so frustrating? I spend 25-50% of my day solving Google's bugs
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.
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#Android QuickTip: Make logcat awesome
pidcat is also great for filtering out all the junk without using tags
Stetho
What are some alternatives?
Android Debug Bridge - ADB
Android Debug Database - A library for debugging android databases and shared preferences - Make Debugging Great Again
Android Snooper - Android library to record the network calls through the interceptor mechanism of the http clients.
ADB Enhanced - 🔪Swiss-army knife for Android testing and development 🔪 ⛺
chucker - 🔎 An HTTP inspector for Android & OkHTTP (like Charles but on device)
Android DebugPort - A Read-Eval-Print-Loop server for Android and SQLite
Goreinu - Goreinu allows to copy application files on sdcard.
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.