XCGLogger does not colorise in debug window

Question

The Github Readme mentions possibility of colours in debug. Despite configuration of the XcodeColors plugin, what else is needed to get colorised output there?

Answer 1

Use:

log.xcodeColorsEnabled = true

when setting up your log object to explicitly turn on colours. Relying on the environment variable isn't great for iOS apps since you have to add it manually in your project. The environment variable works better for OS X apps since you can set it in your .profile etc and have it work for all projects.

Answer 2

For iOS projects, the current version of Xcode (7.3) and XCGLogger (3.3) requires the following line as hinted at by Dave Wood:

log.xcodeColorsEnabled = true

You can put it in didFinishLaunchingWithOptions in AppDelegate.swift after

let log = XCGLogger.defaultInstance()
log.setup(.Debug, showThreadName: true, showLogLevel: true, showFileNames: true, showLineNumbers: true, writeToFile: nil, fileLogLevel: nil)

and then test with

log.info("App started")