Android: How to change the default logging level?

Question

According to the documentation there are only two ways to change the default logging level from INFO to lower levels (such as DEBUG):

1. setprop log.tag.<YOUR_LOG_TAG> <LEVEL>, or
2. log.tag.<YOUR_LOG_TAG>=<LEVEL> in /data/local.prop.

Is it possible to bundle the logging configuration within the application? I'm looking for the equivalent of logging.properties or logback.xml, configuration files that are bundled with the application and alter the logging behavior at load-time. The goal is to avoid manually configuring each device that the application will run on.

Answer 1

I ended up using logback-android. I will leave this question open a bit longer in case someone comes up with a better solution.