Storing application activity log in Android

Question

I would like to log some data of my application activity so as to read it latter on in the system. The data includes strings, floats etc collected when a button is pressed. What is the best way to do this?

Answer 1

I ended up writing my own function for logging on the device.

public static BufferedWriter out;
    private void createFileOnDevice(Boolean append) throws IOException {
            /*
             * Function to initially create the log file and it also writes the time of creation to file.
             */
            File Root = Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory();
            if(Root.canWrite()){
                 File  LogFile = new File(Root, "Log.txt");
                 FileWriter LogWriter = new FileWriter(LogFile, append);
                 out = new BufferedWriter(LogWriter);
                 Date date = new Date();
                 out.write("Logged at" + String.valueOf(date.getHours() + ":" + date.getMinutes() + ":" + date.getSeconds() + "\n"));
            }
        }

public void writeToFile(String message){
        try {
            out.write(message+"\n");
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

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