Suggestions for logging in KMM apps? mostly interested in Android/iOS

# multiplatform

[Ivann Ruiz]

Suggestions for logging in KMM apps? mostly interested in Android/iOS

[Casey Brooks]

I’ve just pushed Clog to Bintray. Designed to work out-of-the-box with no config required https://github.com/copper-leaf/clog

[Ivann Ruiz]

Great, will check it out!

[Konstantin Tskhovrebov]

I use https://github.com/AAkira/Napier in mi pet projects

[Ivann Ruiz]

@Casey Brooks Hey i'm trying to use Clog but gradle can't seem to find the dependency on bintray, I C/P this line from github for my KMP project implementation("clog:core:{{site.version}}") in commonMain sourceset and tried replacing {{site.version}} with the latest version 3.5.4 but it wasn't found. It only seems to find something using "io.copper-leaf:clog:3.5.4" but then the iOS breaks. Any insights would be appreciated

[Casey Brooks]

I don’t have it released to JCenter just yet, so you’ll need to add the local Bintray repo for it

repositories {
    ...
    maven(url = "<https://dl.bintray.com/copper-leaf/oss>")
}

[Ivann Ruiz]

Forgot to mention that I added that maven repo as well, it's still not working though.

[Casey Brooks]

Hmm, I just tried it again in the MPP library I’m creating this for, and it compiled to an iOS framework just fine. Is it not finding the iOS dependency, or it is having an error at runtime?

[Ivann Ruiz]

• This doesn't work at all implementation("clog:core:3.5.4") (that's the KMP instruction from github)
• This kind of works implementation("io.copper-leaf:clog:3.5.4") it will throw errors in the IDE but compile for Android. iOS fails with this message:

e: Could not find "/Users/ivannruiz/.gradle/caches/modules-2/files-2.1/io.copper-leaf/clog-iosx64/3.5.4/ed83b2ca17d07aa4e3db451a40e6d87de2caf8b3/clog.klib" in [/Users/ivannruiz/wormy-mobile/mobile/ios/Pods, /Users/ivannruiz/.konan/klib, /Users/ivannruiz/.konan/kotlin-native-prebuilt-macos-1.4/klib/common, /Users/ivannruiz/.konan/kotlin-native-prebuilt-macos-1.4/klib/platform/ios_x64].

[Casey Brooks]

yeah, I’m still figuring how how exactly to publish it. implementation("clog:core:3.5.4") was my first try in publishing it but Bintray didn’t like the groupId, so I changed it to implementation("io.copper-leaf:clog:3.5.4"). It looks like I updated the JVM usage in the readme but not the MPP one, so thanks for pointing that out. implementation("io.copper-leaf:clog:3.5.4") is the proper dependency.

Also, it looks like you’re using Kotlin 1.4? That might be causing that problem as well, I haven’t tried updating to it yet. I honestly don’t know what’s expected when using a 1.3.72 lib in 1.4

[Ivann Ruiz]

Ah yeah I'm using K 1.4... that might have something to do with it

[Ivann Ruiz]

Guess I'll have to find another logger for the time being but would def like to see Clog in K1.4!

[Konstantin Tskhovrebov]

Napier… 😌

[Ivann Ruiz]

@Konstantin Tskhovrebov Currently giving Napier a try! so far so good