where does android debug put log file?

[Bob Gailer]

The log entries I see as a result of specifying RUN LOGCAT on the buildozer command line has these lines:

I/python  (19965): Run user program, change dir and execute main.py
I/python  (19965): [INFO              ] [Logger      ] Record log in /data/data/org.test.proj1/files/.kivy/logs/kivy_17-04-19_0.txt

Where is /data? I can't find it in the ubuntu computer nor in the phone SD card.

[Alexander Taylor]

That directory is the app's own install directory, which is not generally accessible to other applications. I'm not sure what's written there anyway, if anything.

The normal way to access the log is via adb logcat: https://kivy.org/docs/guide/android.html#debugging-your-application-on-the-android-platform

[ZenCODE]

We find it useful to re-direct the logging to the user folder, so you can use a file explorer on the device to access it. Something like this (making sure this code runs before any other kivy imports...

```
from kivy.config import Config
from helpers.localos import get_user_path  # Basically expandpath('~') + ".<appnam>"
from os.path import join, exists
from os import makedirs

""" Sets the path to the log file. """
log_path = join(get_user_path(), 'logs')
if not exists(log_path):
    makedirs(log_path)
Config.set('kivy', 'log_dir', log_path)
```