See Android WebView Logs Without Using Chrome Developer Tools

This library WebView Logger(WVL) gets the logs from the console without using remote logging chrome://inspect.

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Notable usage

1. View Logs from WebView(ConsoleLogs)
2. Send logs to mail

Add below line in Project.gradle

repositories { 
     //... other repos maven 
     { 
        url "https://dl.bintray.com/arulmani/WebKit"
     } 
}

Add below line in App.gradle under Dependecy section

implementation 'com.arul.webkit:wvl:1.0.4'

That’s it sync the project.

We can configure mail and cache size of log tobe store. Add below line in strings.xml .

<string name="wvl_report_email">sample@mail.com</string> 
<string name="wvl_log_cache_size">20</string>

Adding web chrome client for WebView follow below implementation

That’s it now we can see logs

Open WVL first then open the WebView logger to get to listen to the latest logs.

When installing your web view application WVL launcher icon also added into launcher screen like the below specified.

Click on send icon to send logs to the mail that you configured.

Ref

How to debug with Remote debugging

https://developer.android.com/guide/webapps/debugging

WVL opensource

https://github.com/arulmani33/wvl.git

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Originally published at https://github.com.