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I believe Logcat is a circular store and I wonder what the limit is before it overwrites.
Presumably this means that its time range will vary according to usage.
Is there any way to expand its capacity?
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First enable Developer options in Settings. Then navigate to the newly visible Developer options entry, scroll down, and click on logger buffer size . This will display options ranging from off to 16Mb . I have found that when switching to off , logcat will still hold and report a buffer size of 64Kb .
You can also do it per project, via the IDE: Settings->Editor->General->Console: tick "Override console cycle buffer size. Enter your desired size in the text box. Finally restart Android Studio for the changes to take effect.
Logcat is a command-line tool that dumps a log of system messages, including stack traces when the device throws an error and messages that you have written from your app with the Log class. To view the logs of your device, connect your Android device to your laptop.
To see the size use -g
$ adb logcat -g ring buffer is 64Kb (63Kb consumed), max entry is 4096b, max payload is 4076b If you love us? You can donate to us via Paypal or buy me a coffee so we can maintain and grow! Thank you!
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