Copy Android LogCat / Log Contents From a Device With adb

It’s a bummer when your Android application crashes while you’re away from a computer. Luckily, there’s a simple adb command that will dump the contents of logcat’s ring buffer to your local disk, so you can examine the cause of the crash: This will copy the phone’s log to a local file called logcat.txt and [...]

Posted at 1pm on 8/5/12 | 2 comments | read on

LightBox Effect for Android Dialogs

The stock black rectangular progress dialogs on Android are ugly, so I created a simple little open-source alternative. It works by placing a translucent overlay on the Android UI with a ProgressBar and a dialog message. There’s also an alpha animation in there, to really class it up. To use it, just add the lightbox_dialog.xml [...]

Posted at 11am on 6/12/12 | no comments; | read on

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Hi. My name is Justin Schultz and I’m an Android Engineer in San Francisco.