Android LogCat Filter for multiple tags in Eclipse

Question

Clicked on create filter could not figure out from docs how to create a filter for say two or more tags. If I have two tags com.test.TestClassA and com.test

Answer 1

As pointed by Brain Reinhold you can combine tag filters with vertical bar | (which obviously means logical "OR"). You can also use that (as well as other Regex) syntax in the logcat search box (by preceding tags with tag: prefix):

tag:com.test.TestClassA|com.test.TestClassB

More complex filtering is also possible. For example here is the search filter that displays messages from either android.process.media or com.android.camera apps, which have at least one digit (\d) in the message text and are tagged with either dalvikvm or AndroidRuntime tags:

app:android.process.media|com.android.camera tag:dalvikvm|AndroidRuntime text:\d

One short and useful filter is tag:^(?!dalvikvm) which removes all those noisy Dalvik logs.

It's also worth mentioning that you can quickly disable any part of the filter by placing vertical bar at the end of the part you wish to disable (e.g. placing | right after app:android.process.media|com.android.camera in the example above effectively disables filtering by application name while still preserving filtering by tags and text).