Logging to a file on Android

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Published on 2010-01-22T09:33:45Z Indexed on 2010/05/20 11:10 UTC
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Is there any way of retrieving log messages from an Android handset.

I'm building an application which uses the GPS of my HTC Hero. I can run and debug the application from eclipse but this isn't a good use case of GPS, sat at my desk.

When I fire the app up when I am walking around, I get an intermittent exception. Is there anyway I can output these exceptions to a text file on the SD card or output calls to Log.x("") to a text file so that I can see what the exception is.

Thanks

EDIT : Solution

Here is the code I finally went with...

Thread.currentThread().setUncaughtExceptionHandler(new Thread.UncaughtExceptionHandler() {
    @Override
    public void uncaughtException(Thread thread, Throwable ex) {

    PrintWriter pw;
    try {
        pw = new PrintWriter(
                new FileWriter(Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory()+"/rt.log", true));
        ex.printStackTrace(pw);
        pw.flush();
        pw.close();
    } catch (IOException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
}
});

I had to wrap the line

pw = new PrintWriter(new FileWriter(Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory()+"/rt.log", true));

in a try/catch as Eclipse would not let me compile the app. It kept saying

Unhandled exception type IOException

1 quick fix
    Sorround with try/catch

So I did and it all works which is fine by me but it does make me wonder what Eclipse was on about...

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