Cannot see Log messages from my android app in Android Studio logcat? - android

I am using Android Studio and wanted to see if I could get "prints" or logs from my app, which would help later in debugging of more involved apps.
My minSDK API is 9 and targetSDK API is 22.
So, I take the simplest HelloAndroid app, and add a Log.i with an appropriate tag in the oncreate method.
I install and run this app on my Samsung phone, which has the developer options set to enable USB debugging.
The app runs fine, and I can see the system logs.w or logs.i from the various managers, but I can't find the print message I had inserted.
I had already added debuggable = true in both manifest and gradle build script as well.
So, why can't I see my own log messages.
Thanks,
Har Yash

In my case, I needed to reinstall the application on my device to see at least the logs. It seems that android studio was not running the actual version of my code...
Maybe these links could help to solve the problem in that case:
how-to-reinstall-apk
how-to-resintall-app

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Timed out waiting for process to appear on device

I am having the following problem when running or debugging apps on a device or emulator with Android Studio. The application is installed but it is not started on the device (or emulator). In the Run window I can see the following:
Launching app on device.
Waiting for process to come online...
and after some time I see the following:
Timed out waiting for process to appear on 'device'...
I have attached a screenshot that shows the problem.
The problem started recently. I am using the latest version of Android studio (3.5.1) and a Google Pixel device running Android 10 but the problem happens on emulators and other devices running previous versions of Android. The problem also happens on two different computers, with different Android applications and devices - the common factor is Android studio. Finally, the problem seems to have started after I updated Android Studio to 3.5.
Does anyone know how to fix this problem? I have tried many things (clear cache, rebuild, invalidate and restart, etc) without success.
Any ideas?
You mentioned that restarting Android Studio didn't work for you...but it worked for me...
File > Invalidate Caches / Restart... > Just Restart
Android Studio 3.6.2
Build #AI-192.7142.36.36.6308749, built on March 18, 2020
There is a bug in the recent Android Studio release. You can revert to previous version or test it from command line.
For me the problem was that I accidentally removed the Launch of the Default Activity in the "Run > Edit Configurations..." option.
Just insert the "Default Activity" under "Launch Options" and your application will run again on your device.
For me, it took marking the build as "debuggable" in the application build.gradle file.
For example:
android {
//...
buildTypes {
// ...
releaseStaging {
debuggable true // <- add this line
signingConfig signingConfigs.release
applicationIdSuffix ".releaseStaging"
versionNameSuffix "-STAGING"
matchingFallbacks = ['release']
}
}
}
Remember to remove this before building release APKs though!!!
Even if I faced the timed out issue in one plus and followed steps that fixed for me.
Go to the respective app
Hold for 3 sec > App info> permissions> allow for storage>.
Next, go to adv settings> battery opt > check "Don't optimize.">
Come back and scroll down > display over other apps> enable....
Hope this helps.
I managed to fix the problem by uninstalling Android studio, deleting all relevant files in the user folder (including gradle cached files) and installing the latest version of Android studio. The problem seems to have been fixed after several months. Note that I am now using Android Studio 4.1.
Hey I had this same problem recently, I tried re-starting adb server but no luck, however when I uninstalled the APK present on my device. Then everything was back to normal.
When I tried to run it on a emulator which didn't have application already, it worked perfectly fine.
Hope this helps :) Thank You.
I tried most of the answers from here and on YouTube. What worked for me is updating my Android studio to the latest version; 4.0.
Everything was working fine for me, when I started getting the error described in this question. So I created and started using a different virtual device for the emulator, and it didn't have the problem.
I was using debugging over Bluetooth.
Giving Location permission to the WearOS app on my phone solved the problem for me.
(Bluetooth scan access is restricted in the modern android versions unless fine Location permission is granted)
In case it can help someone...
try one of the following:
Make sure device is not connected the same time via data cable and wifi
2.If you are connecting through wifi, try to connect via data cable.
3.Check maybe your device has some component or anything maybe like fingerprint interfering with the connection.
When these errors occur:
Message in Run
No communication with Run (stacktraces, System.out ...)
No restart button
Install the newest Android Studio version
Try on different virtual devices, some of them are glitched

Display Cordova "console.log" entries in Android Studio

I have a Cordova app using Vue.js, and lots of logging using the standard Javascript/browser console.log(). Up until now I've only been targeting iOS, and those console.log messages appear in the xCode log viewer.
Now, however, I'm also targeting Android. I've successfully imported the Cordova project into Android Studio and the app is running in debug mode in the Emulator. But, I can't find the console.log output anywhere.
I think the log output should appear here, but there is nothing from my app at all.
I've also tried Logcat, as #Lukasz describes, which also had no effect:
You should try to use chrome inspect as described here:
https://developers.google.com/web/tools/chrome-devtools/remote-debugging/
If you really want to see the console.log statements from inside the Android Studio you can use logcat View -> Tool Windows -> Logcat. Remember to filter it by 'CONSOLE' statement like I did on the image below.
I finally resolved this. I had to enable Developer Options in settings and enable USB Debugging.
If you're not seeing console.log in LogCat, ensure your application is debuggable. This will be true for apps run from Android Studio (I think) but if you're debugging a 3rd party APK like I am, it won't. Maybe this will save someone the 3 hours I wasted on it.
So ensure android:debuggable="true" is there in the application tag of of your AndroidManifest.xml file

Problems running app on actual device

OK, please take it easy on me, I am new to the whole Xamarin community. I have built a simple calculator app using MVVMCross. When I run the app in an emulator everything works great. It still needs some UI attention, but functionally it all works. When I go to archive it and make an install on my phone, it installs just fine. The issue is when I go to run it. As soon as it opens I get an error message. "Calculator.UI.Droid has stopped" Open app again. I have gone through everything I can find online to do this and nothing is working.
Here is my setup:
Visual Studio 2017 Community with latest updates
Windows 10 with latest updates
Latest Java SDK
Project Properties:
Compile using Android Version 7.1 (Nougat)
Minimum Android Version 5.0
Target Android Version 7.1
Use Fast Deployment - false
Generate one package (.apk) per selected ABI - unchecked
Enable ProGuard - checked
Linking - SDK and User Assemblies
Android Phone:
Google Pixel 2 with latest updates.
Any help would be appreciative. Just let me know if you need more information. Thanks in advance
I myself are also using Xamarin, and quite often I get this problem, most times it is related to the code, so please make sure that's the case.
comment out your calculator stuff, and try running the basic app on your physical device. if that works try to find the problem, idk if you can use breakpoints because your problems happens on boot.

Android Logcat is empty when debug with device in android studio

When I try to debug using android device in android studio Logcat shows nothing. But when I use emulator LogCat shows all the messages. How should view the Logcat messages when debugging on actual device?
Thank You !
In Android studio 0.8.0 you should enable ADB integration through Tools -> Android, before run your app. Then the log cat will work correctly. Notice that if you make ADB integration disabled while your app is running and again make it enable, then the log cat dosen't show anything unless you rebuild your project.
Restart the phone. And it solves magically
I was using Lenovo A7000plus powered by Android 6.0 M and found out that my Android Studio was unable to record the debug process, but somehow other's phone debug report could be recorded. Plus, I tried use Memu emulator and it recorded normally.
Strangely, that device was recognized by Android Studio and ready to be debugged, but no recorded debug report at all from all application that ran on the device. Of course, USB debug was tuned on.
What I did before, I turned off Developer option on that phone in order to play my favourite mobile game (F/GO) which forbids USB Debugging is turned on in the device.
A few hours later, after trying any method in Internet and not success, accidentally I found simple but strange solution that is Restart the phone. I restarted the phone while it was connecting to PC, and somehow the logcat showed all debug process in Logcat like normal.
It sounds like non-engineering solution at all, but that's really work for my case.
As of 0.4.0 I have noticed that the logcat tab does not work in the debugger window - only in the Android DDMS window (hit Alt+6 to bring up the working logcat while debugging). Awkward I know :)
In Android studio 1.0.2 or later: you should enable ADB integration through Tools -> Android, before run your app
In Android studio 1.* if logcat messages have disappeared for me helps the next trick:
Tools -> Android -> disable )) "enable ADB integration" (if it've been enabled)
Tools -> Android -> enable it again "enable ADB integration"
In 0.8.2 the DDMS window doesn't show up. However restarting the adb logcat windows by pressing Alt+6 (Twice, if it's already opened) fixes the issue. It worked for me.
I understand that this question is over 2 years old, but from my searches a few people are still having a persistent problem with this. One possible solution to this (which worked for me after two hours!) is that your phone settings may have its "Log Switch" set to off, hence it isn't sending your log data to the IDE.
Here is the solution - "Unable to open log device '/dev/log/main': No such file or directory"
Hope it helps!
If anyone's still having trouble with this despite trying all the answers here, just use System.out.println instead of log.* and your debug messages will output.
Updated: I finally got the cause of the problem in my case. If I switch of my device's wifi, the log shows. Otherwise, the log will not show. I tried several times and it the always show full logs when I turn off my wifi.
My device is: Gsmart Classic, OS: Android OS, v5.1 (Lollipop). I met the problem when I updated the gradle build tool from 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:2.0.0-alpha1' to 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:2.0.0-alpha3' in Android Studio 2.0-preview. After trying all the solutions with no luck, I tried un applied all the instant run choices and re-apply it again. Then the logs show up.
Note: if it still doesn't help. You can as well try to switch back-and-forth the back ground process limit. Unfortunately, I couldn't reproduce the error.
In Android Studio 2.x I used to have to restart to get it working but often switching back and forth between the applications works or running
adb kill-server;
adb start-server;
to restart adb fixes many things as well.
The problem seems to have different causes.
For me, the issue was that I had two emulators with the same name (I created it, deleted it, and then created it again with the same name). There were two emulator entries in the logcat dropdown and it was connected to the wrong one. All I had to do was switch to the other one. I prevented the problem permanently by renaming the emulator.
I believe that the problem has various causes for different users. I experienced the same issue with logcat not displaying any information when my application crashed, and we all know how frustrating this can be.
The following are the solutions that worked for me.
Invalidating caches and restarting android studio
In the developer option in your physical device make sure the logger Buffer size is set to 1MB per logger buffer.
Restart your physical device.
Hope this helps.

Debugging android app does not install on emulator or device

I was having an issue with debugging my app with eclipse. When I go to debug on either a real device or on an emulator the process goes fine except on the console it gets stuck saying "app_name.apk installing....". There are no error messages and I even tried it with the standard hello world app. I've never had this issue before with my previous app, however I have updated the SDK since then. I have debuggable = true, and do have the block in the manifest which is a common problem. I also set up the real device for unknown sources and debugging. I didn't know if anybody else had this problem and fixed it ? Maybe its an issue the ADB?
Finally got it to work, uninstalled eclipse and the SDK and got the newest version from google. Previously eclipse wouldn't let me update the ADB and I'm assuming that's the root of the error. Works fine now and the new version of eclipse looks super classy.

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