logging - Android - Set max length of logcat messages

Question

By default, it seems that logcat will truncate any log message that it considers to be "too long". This happens both inside of Eclipse and when running logcat on the command line using adb -d logcat, and is truncating some important debugging messages.

Is there any way to increase the maximum string length supported by logcat to get it to stop truncating the debug information? The official documentation implies that there may not be, but maybe logcat supports some additional options not mentioned there?

Answer 1

Ok, interesting. I was disappointed to see that the answer was "you can't really expand it". My initial thought was to break it up so I could view the whole thing, so here I share with you how I do just that (not that it's anything fancy nor is it near efficient, but it gets the job done in a pinch):

if (sb.length() > 4000) {
    Log.v(TAG, "sb.length = " + sb.length());
    int chunkCount = sb.length() / 4000;     // integer division
    for (int i = 0; i <= chunkCount; i++) {
        int max = 4000 * (i + 1);
        if (max >= sb.length()) {
            Log.v(TAG, "chunk " + i + " of " + chunkCount + ":" + sb.substring(4000 * i));
        } else {
            Log.v(TAG, "chunk " + i + " of " + chunkCount + ":" + sb.substring(4000 * i, max));
        }
    }
} else {
    Log.v(TAG, sb.toString());
}

Edited to show the last string!