are Android's debug logs really stripped at runtime?

Question

Android documentation ( http://developer.android.com/reference/android/util/Log.html ) says:

Verbose should never be compiled into an application except d

Answer 1

No. You have to do this yourself. You can make your own Log.d wrapper like this:

public static void debug(String tag, String msg) {
    if (BuildConfig.DEBUG) {
        Log.d(tag, msg);
    }
}