Keypress and touch event debugging

[Hendra]

Hi,

Is there any debugging information related to keypress (key code,
button down/up, etc) and touch events (coordinate, action down/move/
up, etc) that are accessible through logcat, including the time that
the event is posted in the system? If there isn't such thing, does
anyone have any idea of a good place where I can add this debugging
information?

Thank you,
Hendra

[Luke Hutchison]

Yes, you can just dump that information out yourself to the log, by putting some Log.i() statements into the onKeyDown() and onTouchEvent() methods of an Activity or View.

[Hendra]

Hi Luke,

Thanks for the info. Do you know of a way to do this at global level
so that all keypress and motion events are reported in every activity?

Regards,
Hendra

[Dianne Hackborn]

There currently isn't a way to do this.

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Dianne Hackborn
Android framework engineer
hac...@android.com

Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support.  All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them.

[Dianne Hackborn]

Well I should take that back a bit -- of you are posting here, you presumably are building your own versions of the platform, so you can just build a version that does log outputs that the places in the framework and/or window manager where you are interested.  There are also numerous debug logs you can turn on in the window manager if you are rebuilding the system.

[Hendra]

Hi Dianne,

I was hoping I just need to invoke the emulator with a correct flag,
but I guess it's not. Thanks for the info though, now I know what to
explore from here.

Regards,
Hendra

On Jan 14, 1:01 pm, "Dianne Hackborn" <hack...@android.com> wrote:
> Well I should take that back a bit -- of you are posting here, you
> presumably are building your own versions of the platform, so you can just
> build a version that does log outputs that the places in the framework
> and/or window manager where you are interested.  There are also numerous
> debug logs you can turn on in the window manager if you are rebuilding the
> system.
>

> > hack...@android.com

>
> > Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to
> > provide private support.  All such questions should be posted on public
> > forums, where I and others can see and answer them.
>
> --
> Dianne Hackborn
> Android framework engineer

> hack...@android.com