SendLog

SendLog is a diagnostic tool. It will send the log file and a process list from your phone to an email.

This is useful to send to the developer of an application in case it crashes or otherwise misbehaves.

You can choose any of the formats that logcat supports. The default and recommended format is "time".

It will add the output of "top" to the email. This shows the list of processes and the amount of CPU they are using.

SendLog works with all Android versions and all phones and tablets. It will not truncate the log file. The log file is also stored as a text file on the root of the SD card, or the app folder if there's no SD card present.

You can create a home shortcut where you can specify the destination email, format and email client.

Note that other applications such as Facebook, Twitter, Catch Notes, etc will also be listed as possible email clients, but you should not choose any of these because they cannot handle attachments.

For easy reading of the log file on your PC, I recommend androidlogcatviewer.

It has been reported that reading logs is no longer supported in Jelly Bean. I have not been able to verify this.

Developers

If SendLog is installed you can invoke it from your application using the following code:

    Intent intent = getPackageManager().getLaunchIntentForPackage("org.l6n.sendlog");
    intent.setType("5|com.google.android.gm.ComposeActivityGmail|android@l6n.org");
    startActivity(intent);

The first parameter is the format from this zero-based list: brief, process, tag, thread, raw, time, threadtime, long.

It's possible to omit the second parameter, or the second and third parameters.

You can also add additional parameters to logcat by adding a line like this:

    intent.putExtra("filter", "MyApp:D *:I");

Add you can also specify the email subject by adding a line like this:

    intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, "whatever you want");

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