--- title: log - a drop-in replacement for android Log class description: An Android developer introduces trikita.log, a lightweight drop-in replacement for the android.util.Log class. It preserves the same import path for easy... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/log---a-drop-in-replacement-for-android-log-class-lh5dmwgda twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: log - a drop-in replacement for android Log class | daily.dev og:description: An Android developer introduces trikita.log, a lightweight drop-in replacement for the android.util.Log class. It preserves the same import path for easy... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/log---a-drop-in-replacement-for-android-log-class-lh5dmwgda og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/Lh5dMWgDA.png og:image:alt: log - a drop-in replacement for android Log class og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # log - a drop-in replacement for android Log class **[zserge's blog](https://daily.dev/sources/zserge)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary An Android developer introduces trikita.log, a lightweight drop-in replacement for the android.util.Log class. It preserves the same import path for easy migration, adds configurable log levels, supports switching output between Android Log and System.out.println for JVM compatibility, and allows logging multiple comma-separated values or format strings without manual concatenation. The author compares it favorably to Square's Timber and to using ProGuard for stripping logs, and gives setup instructions via Gradle and Android Studio's find-and-replace. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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