Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; /***************************************************************************** * Util.java ***************************************************************************** * Copyright 2011-2014 VLC authors and VideoLAN * * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or * (at your option) any later version. * * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the * GNU General Public License for more details. * * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software * Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston MA 02110-1301, USA. *****************************************************************************/ import java.io.BufferedReader; import java.io.IOException; import java.io.InputStreamReader; public class Main { /** * Get the last 500 lines of the application logcat. * * @return the log string. * @throws IOException */ public static String getLogcat() throws IOException { String[] args = { "logcat", "-v", "time", "-d", "-t", "500" }; Process process = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(args); InputStreamReader input = new InputStreamReader(process.getInputStream()); BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(input); StringBuilder log = new StringBuilder(); String line; while ((line = br.readLine()) != null) log.append(line + "\n"); br.close(); input.close(); return log.toString(); } }