Question

I assume most of you are aware of android.util.Log
All logging methods accept ‘String tag’ as a first argument.

And my question is How do you usually tag your logs in your applications?
I’ve seen some hardcode like this:

public class MyActivity extends Activity {
    private static final String TAG = "MyActivity";
    //...
    public void method () {
        //...
        Log.d(TAG, "Some logging");
    }
}

This doesn’t look nice because of many reasons:

• You can tell me this code doesn’t have hardcode, but it does.
• My application could have any number of classes in different packages with the same name. So it would be hard to read the log.
• It isn’t flexible. You always have put a private field TAG into your class.

Is there any neat way to get a TAG for a class?

Answer 1

I use a TAG, but I initialise it like this:

private static final String TAG = MyActivity.class.getName();

This way when I refactor my code the tag will also change accordingly.