Debuggers are all well and good, but when you have to break out the debug log statements, they should be powerful!

LogSugar is a small library intended to make debugging via log statements easier.

1. Click to jump to where you logged from (like you'd see in stack traces)
2. Extension functions for inspecting values
3. Measure elapsed time & count occurrences
4. ...etc

build.gradle.kts:

implementation("com.github.JeffWright:logsugar:<VERSION>")

(find the latest version here)

Optional: Call this from wherever you want. configure() has additional options.

LogSugar.configure { tag, message ->
  // If you're on Android, this looks good with Android Studio's "compact" view.  If you're not, you can use println() or anything else
  Log.d("LogSugar", "$tag: $message")
}

Use it:

class LogSugarDemo {
  fun demo() {    
    log("some message")
    someObject.inspect()
  }
}

Shows:

16:40:55.076  D  .(LogSugarDemo.kt:8): 0.002s      demo() 🍬 some message
16:40:55.077  D  .(LogSugarDemo.kt:9): 0.002s      demo() 🍬 SomeObject(prop1=something, prop2=42)

See LogSugarDemo.kt

NOTE: Android logcat supports color but Android Studio's logcat view does not. 😢

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Author: Jeff Wright