How do you usually Tag log entries? (android)

Question

I assume most of you are aware of android.util.Log All logging methods accept 'String tag' as a first argument.

And my question is How do you usually tag your logs in your applications? I've seen some hardcode like this:

public class MyActivity extends Activity {     private static final String TAG = "MyActivity";     //...     public void method () {         //...         Log.d(TAG, "Some logging");     } } 

This doesn't look nice because of many reasons:

• You can tell me this code doesn't have hardcode, but it does.
• My application could have any number of classes in different packages with the same name. So it would be hard to read the log.
• It isn't flexible. You always have put a private field TAG into your class.

Is there any neat way to get a TAG for a class?

Answer 1

I use a TAG, but I initialise it like this:

private static final String TAG = MyActivity.class.getName(); 

This way when I refactor my code the tag will also change accordingly.