logback-android

Advanced logging library for Android applications

Overview

logback-android brings the power of Logback to Android. Logback is a reliable, generic, fast, and flexible logging library for Java applications.

The current version is 1.0.7-1.

Download

• logback-android-1.0.7-1.jar (SHA1: 879079a6f5858c3ed40d0fec2e6728e536dd3f1a)
• slf4j-api-1.7.1.jar (SHA1: 1a508b0ecd360507a39a4dbaedd1aa4750741f6d)

Quickstart

1. Add Logback and SLF4J to your project classpath.

2. Enter configuration XML in one of the following locations. Note that logback-android checks them in exact order and uses the first one found.

   • SD card (/sdcard/logback/logback.xml)
   • Your application's AndroidManifest.xml
   • Your application's assets/logback.xml (create dir if necessary)

   If not found, a simple LogcatAppender is used by default.

3. Ready to run!

See examples

Features Supported

Runs on Android 2.1+

logback-android supports only a subset of Logback's features (i.e., the logback-core and logback-classic modules). It does NOT support the following:

• logback-access
• Groovy configuration
• Conditionals in the configuration XML
• JMS, JMX, JNDI, and Servlets

Documentation

• logback-android Javadoc
• Logback manual
• Why switch from log4j?
• Changelog

For help with using logback-android, ask the mailing list: logback-user@qos.ch.

Build

logback-android is built with Apache Maven. Use these commands to create the uber JAR.

mvn install 
mvn -f pom-uber.xml package -Dmy.project.version=1.0.7-2-SNAPSHOT

NOTE: The uber jar contains logback-android-core, logback-android-classic, and apktool-lib (repackaged under ch.qos.logback.repackage). The apktool-lib will be optional in a future release.

To include logback-android in your Maven project, add the following dependencies to your project's pom.xml:

<dependency>
  <groupId>com.github.tony19</groupId>
  <artifactId>logback-android-core</artifactId>
  <version>1.0.7-1</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
  <groupId>com.github.tony19</groupId>
  <artifactId>logback-android-classic</artifactId>
  <version>1.0.7-1</version>
</dependency>