Need a way to disable logging

[sshock]

Is there any way to disable logging other than commenting it out and creating my own build?

[imurchie]

The Appium server has a flag, --log-level, which can be set higher to get less logging. See the documentation here: http://appium.io/docs/en/writing-running-appium/server-args/

[sshock]

I'm talking about the logging from io.appium.uiautomator2.server app that runs on the android device (that shows up in logcat on the device), not the logging from appium server (node program).

[sshock]

I think if the io.appium.uiautomator2.utils.Logger were updated to first check android.util.Log.isLoggable() before each call to Log.x, then I would be able to control the logging via setprop or with /data/local.prop as described here:

https://developer.android.com/reference/android/util/Log#isLoggable(java.lang.String,%20int)

[mykola-mokhnach]

@sshock Feel free to add a PR. This should be a simple change

[sshock]

@mykola-mokhnach Sounds good. I will see if I get around to it sometime this week ;)

Note that the default level is INFO, so if I understand correctly, after making this change VERBOSE and DEBUG will no longer be logged by default, and if someone wants those they will need to use setprop and/or specify in /data/local.prop. So we may want to consider ways to raise awareness about this so people aren't totally caught off guard.