why does logcat drain messages

Question

When I test my android app, I log messages that show up on LogCat. But the messages drain out the top of the window quickly making it impossible to read them quickly enough.

How can I stop this?

Answer 1

There's a scroll lock in the logcat window that you can use to pause the printout for a moment.

To get complete logcat messages, you can redirect them to a file:

adb logcat >& output.log