Android logging levels

Question

I'm having a little difficulty configuring Android logging. Here's what my code looks like:

    if (Log.isLoggable("MY_TAG", Log.VERBOSE)) {         Log.v("MY_TAG", "Here's a log message");     } 

Pretty simple, right?

However, I'm having quite a bit of difficulty getting the Log.isLoggable("MY_TAG", Log.VERBOSE) to return true.

Per http://developer.android.com/reference/android/util/Log.html, I tried adding a local.prop file to the /data/ directory which looks like this:

log.tag.MY_TAG=VERBOSE 

but no luck. I also tried:

System.setProperty("log.tag.MY_TAG", String.valueOf(Log.VERBOSE)); 

but that doesn't work either.

Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong here? I'm running Android 2.1-update1 on a Nexus 1 if that makes any difference.

Answer 1

Try

adb shell setprop log.tag.MyAppTag VERBOSE