Hi All, I just updated to Giraffe and was wonderi...

# android-studio

[Kev Thompson]

Hi All, I just updated to Giraffe and was wondering how to turn off the new logcat? any ideas? the options to turn it off in older versions doesn’t seem to be there? the new logcat is awful.

[Marcin Wisniowski]

What’s wrong with the new logcat? I didn’t really notice much difference.

[Kev Thompson]

Ugly, spammy, and hard to filter on what Im looking for, lots of horizontal space used for white space that isn’t neeeded.

I also regularly cut and paste from the logs and format chunks for emailing out and the new formatting has killed my way of working on that front.

If I cant swap back I’ll just have to get used to it I guess but to me its an unpleasnt experience

[Kev Thompson]

Also a lot of my current project is debugging a module ( that is from a 3rd party ) via log’s. I had some set patterns I was looking out for. patterns than have now changed a lot.

[Marcin Wisniowski]

spammy

I don’t think the logged contents are related to the new logcat, if there is more spam then that’s probably due to the emulator or Android version. The old logcat will show you the exact same logs / spam.

[Kev Thompson]

it certainly feels more spammy when looking. could just be a formatting issue. either way. I want to turn it off.

[Marcin Wisniowski]

I don’t know if you can do that, but you can customise the formatting, so you can probably change it to look like the old one if that’s what you want.

[kevindmoore]

I would just use logging from a terminal. That way you can format it how you like

[Colton Idle]

i dont think you can turn it off. its been in development for like a year but im assuming you should just file a bug report if somethings not working correctly. they typically get back to me on issuetracker within a few days.