README.md

slf4j-android fixed

Tired of slf4j-android not logging your debug messages? Tired of android logger hiding your UnknownHostException or other exceptions not appearing? Use this instead of the built-in slf4j-android logger.

Features

• Shows DEBUG messages during the development: http://jira.qos.ch/browse/SLF4J-314
• Does not hide any exceptions, even exceptions hidden by buggy Android Studio 1.5. Fixes https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=195164 https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=194446 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28897239/log-e-does-not-print-the-stack-trace-of-unknownhostexception

Using with your project

You do not need to install anything, just check out the sources and run

$ ./gradlew

This will install the slf4j-handroid library into your local m2 repository. Then, just add the following gradle dependency to your Android project:

repositories {
  ...
  mavenLocal()
}
dependencies {
  compile 'org.slf4j:slf4j-handroid:1.7.13'
}

Then, just update the HandroidLoggerAdapter.DEBUG field to appropriate value. Good practice is to log debug during development, while not logging debug messages during production. You can achieve this by adding a constructor to your android.app.Application and:

HandroidLoggerAdapter.DEBUG = BuildConfig.DEBUG;

Then, replace all calls to Android built-in Log class by slf4j logging, for example:

public class YourClass {
  private static final Logger log = LoggerFactory.getLogger(YourClass.class);
  public void foo() {
    log.error("Something failed", new RuntimeException("something"));
  }
}