Logcat usage in classes being tested

[StylianosGakis]

If a logger is not installed, it defaults to NoLog which crashes on any log command.
When inside unit tests, if the class being tested also needs to log something and does so using logcat, it means it will by default crash.
What do you usually do in such scenarios? Having to install a logger on each test (even if done by a rule) sounds quite cumbersome to me and I am not familiar with any better alternatives.

[StylianosGakis]

What I have done so far is implement a TestLogcatLogger which simply prints out to System.out and created a test rule like this for my tests.

class TestLogcatLoggingRule(
  private val testLogcatLogger: LogcatLogger = TestLogcatLogger(),
) : ExternalResource(){
  override fun before() {
    LogcatLogger.install(testLogcatLogger)
  }

  override fun after() {
    LogcatLogger.uninstall()
  }
}

I suppose that's the expected thing to do here.

[spectrl]

You can also just use PrintLogger for this

[StylianosGakis]

Heh I did not know this existed. This bad boy has served me well for this past year 😅
But you are right that PrintLogger is what I was looking for here, thanks! Closing this now.