Proguard Retrace not working with stacktrace runtime info like E/AndroidRuntime(10237):

Question

I need to remove lines from my proguard.trace file like E/AndroidRuntime(10237): in order for retrace to work. Basically I am looking at log file and need to remove this l

Answer 1

Try recat. It's a python script based on logcat-color, made exactly for this scenario, on-the-fly logcat deobfuscation (doesn't work on Windows though). The main idea is that it deobfuscates each part of the log (tags/messages) separately.

Answer 2

Proguard wants each "at" on a separate line, and only with white space before it. If it sees anything but white space before the at, it will not unobfuscate it.

Answer 3

Recent versions of ReTrace can parse stack traces with the logcat prefixes like "E/AndroidRuntime(10237):", so it should no longer be a problem.

If you have a stack trace format that ReTrace can't parse, you can always specify your own regular expression with the option -regex.