Custom logging messages hard to distinguish from other logcat messages

Question

In Android Studio's logcat window it is hard to distinguish my custom log messages (Log.d, Log.e...) from the other log messages. This still happens when setting package:mine.

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Answer 1

Best solution is to use Timber.

In MainApplication class set up a custom class extending Timber.Tree. Then Timber.plant it like this:

if (BuildConfig.DEBUG) {
    Timber.plant(new MyPersonalDebugTree());
} else {
    Timber.plant(new CrashReportingTree());
}

The custom Timber.Tree looks like following:

public class MyPersonalDebugTree extends Timber.DebugTree {
    @Override
    protected void log(int priority, String tag, @NonNull String message, Throwable t) {
        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(message);
        sb.insert(0, "\uD83D\uDC99\uD83D\uDC99\uD83D\uDC99 - ");
        super.log(priority, tag, sb.toString(), t);
    }
}

Notice this:

sb.insert(0, "\uD83D\uDC99\uD83D\uDC99\uD83D\uDC99 - ");

It modifies your log messages and adds a prefix containing ❤️❤️❤️.