Obtain logs for debug

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Prerequisites: Android SDK is installed on your computer. Specifically, adb is available.

On command line:

1. Find out the process ID (PID) of AntennaPod. e.g., using ps . It is 21638 in the following example

# In a terminal on your computer with Android SDK
$ adb shell
perry_f:/ $ ps | grep de.danoeh.antennapod
u0_a432   23771 681   992528 32408 SyS_epoll_ 00000000 S de.danoeh.antennapod
perry_f:/ $ exit

2. Use adb logcat to dump the output to a file, e.g.

$ adb logcat --pid=23771 -d > logcat.log

Notes:

• See Logcat documentation for tweaking the outputs. Some useful ones include:
  • -t '<time>' : show logs only since the specified time (to reduce output)
  • -e <expr> : filter output by regular expression
• sometimes you might all the logs. (no --pid argument), as some fatal error will cause Android runtime to indicate errors in the log (that might be helpful) that are out of AntennaPod's process.