LogLinear and LogLog plots in android

Question

I want my application to be able to display frequency response graphs but I cannot find any graphing library that has this functionality. I am currently using MPAndroidChart for some other charts (and it is great !) but sadly I could not find any way to use it to do log plots. I have also tried using numAndroidCharts (numcharts logplot example), but that library seems broken/outdated since i couldn't even get the example code to work properly. Is there anyway that you know of to achieve this ?

Answer 1

I use MPAndroidChart with a log scale with converted values.

For example if your value is 1E-5:

value = 1E-5;
Entry entry = new Entry();
entry.setX(Math.log10(value)); // entry.getX() will return -5

Because your value now is -5 you need to create an AxisFormatter to show that it really represents an logarithmic value:

public class Log10AxisValueFormatter implements IAxisValueFormatter {
    @Override
    public String getFormattedValue(float value, AxisBase axis) {
        return String.format(Locale.ENGLISH, "%.2E", Math.pow(10,value));
    }
}

You need to set an instance of this to your axis when you create your chart:

XAxis xAxis = chart.getXAxis();
xAxis.setValueFormatter(new Log10AxisValueFormatter());