How can I see long texts/msg in logcat?

Question

Since we are using logcat as a console for android. There are cases when the the output text/msg is kinda big and I can\'t see the complete output. The log cat shows only the st

Answer 1

This is the way I solved the problem. Hope it helps.

The important method for using it inside your code is splitAndLog.

public class Utils {
    /**
     * Divides a string into chunks of a given character size.
     * 
     * @param text                  String text to be sliced
     * @param sliceSize             int Number of characters
     * @return  ArrayList   Chunks of strings
     */
    public static ArrayList splitString(String text, int sliceSize) {
        ArrayList textList = new ArrayList();
        String aux;
        int left = -1, right = 0;
        int charsLeft = text.length();
        while (charsLeft != 0) {
            left = right;
            if (charsLeft >= sliceSize) {
                right += sliceSize;
                charsLeft -= sliceSize;
            }
            else {
                right = text.length();
                aux = text.substring(left, right);
                charsLeft = 0;
            }
            aux = text.substring(left, right);
            textList.add(aux);
        }
        return textList;
    }

    /**
     * Divides a string into chunks.
     * 
     * @param text                  String text to be sliced
     * @return  ArrayList   
     */
    public static ArrayList splitString(String text) {
        return splitString(text, 80);
    }

    /**
     * Divides the string into chunks for displaying them
     * into the Eclipse's LogCat.
     * 
     * @param text      The text to be split and shown in LogCat
     * @param tag       The tag in which it will be shown.
     */
    public static void splitAndLog(String tag, String text) {
        ArrayList messageList = Utils.splitString(text);
        for (String message : messageList) {
            Log.d(tag, message);
        }
    }
}