How to get "printf" messages written in NDK application?

Question

if i am defining such function in java file

  /** 
   * Adds two integers, returning their sum
   */
  public native int add( int v1, int v2 );

so i need to code in c file

JNIEXPORT jint JNICALL Java_com_marakana_NativeLib_add
  (JNIEnv * env, jobject obj, jint value1, jint value2) {

  printf("\n this is log messge \n");

        return (value1 + value2);
}

then from where this printf will print it message ? In logcate i dont get it?

How can i debug any NDK application by putting log messages?

Solution 1

use __android_log_print() instead. You have to include header <android/log.h>

Sample Example. __android_log_print(ANDROID_LOG_DEBUG, "LOG_TAG", "\n this is log messge \n");

You can also use format specifier like printf -

__android_log_print(ANDROID_LOG_DEBUG, "LOG_TAG", "Need to print : %d %s",int_var, str_var);

Make sure you also link against the logging library, in your Android.mk file:

  LOCAL_LDLIBS := -llog

Ohh.. forgot .. The output will be shown in Logcat with tag LOG_TAG

Easy Approach

Add the following lines to your common header file.

#include <android/log.h>

#define  LOG_TAG    "your-log-tag"

#define  LOGD(...)  __android_log_print(ANDROID_LOG_DEBUG, LOG_TAG, __VA_ARGS__)
#define  LOGE(...)  __android_log_print(ANDROID_LOG_ERROR, LOG_TAG, __VA_ARGS__)
// If you want you can add other log definition for info, warning etc

Now just call LOGD("Hello world") or LOGE("Number = %d", any_int) like printf in c.

Don't forget to include the common header file.

Remove the logging

If you define LOGD(...) empty, all logs will be gone. Just comment after LOGD(...).

#define LOGD(...) // __android_log..... rest of the code

Solution 2

There is two options:

1) replace printf with __android_log_print. You can do this easily with define at beginning of code:

#define printf(...) __android_log_print(ANDROID_LOG_DEBUG, "TAG", __VA_ARGS__);

Of course this will require changing all source code that has printf.

2) redirect stdout and stderr to Android logcat (not sure if this will work on non-rooted device): http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/debugging/debugging-log.html#viewingStd

Solution 3

not need to root device, acroding to http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/debugging/debugging-log.html#viewingStd, below can work prefectly.

$ adb shell 

$ su 

$ stop

$ setprop log.redirect-stdio true

$ start

done!

Comments

[Jeegar Patel]

when i use option 2 then after applying that 3 command when i run my application emulator just hang up in showing android bootanimation..

[powder366]

How do I remove the logging?

[Yang]

Just in case someone (e.g. me) using Android Studio (current mine is 0.8.11), you put ldLibs "log" inside 'ndk' tag. This solves undefined reference to '__android_log_print' issue.

[Lorne K]

As of Android Studio 1.4 Gradle 2.5 the LOCAL_LDLIBS := -llog has moved from Android.mk to build.gradle - use 'android.ndk { moduleName = "Your-jni" ldLibs += "log" }' NOTE that .gradle syntax has changed in 2.5 (you need the '+=')

[Deemoe]

This method only works on android versions running dalvik (4.4 or earlier), ART versions (5.0 or later) dont support log.redirect-stdio. Source: code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=165602

[Michael IV]

That doesn't help for Visual Studio Android debugging