Question

Does anyone have an idea of how to capture logs continuously and update a list? As I understand

Process process = Runtime.getRuntime().exec("logcat -d");

will read the entire contents of the log buffer and return. But is there a way to continuously read log buffer and update a list view?

Answer 1

I believe this is the only way to do it. Don’t do this in the production app… it’ll drain your battery life quickly.

Process process = Runtime.getRuntime().exec("logcat logcat -b events");
BufferedReader bufferedReader = 
    new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(process.getInputStream()));

String line = bufferedReader.readLine();

while (line != null) {
    // do something with the line

    line = bufferedReader.readLine();
}