A python script which outputs logcat messages in color.
This script was originally written by Jeff Sharkey and can be found here.
I changed the code substantially in order to support multiple logcat output formats. The color codes roughly correspond to the usual output (warning = yellow, error = red, ...) now.
Put coloredlogcat.py in your $PATH.
coloredlogcat.py behaves like plain adb logcat:
$> coloredlogcat.py
$> coloredlogcat.py -v time
Or reads from stdin:
$> cat logfile.log | coloredlogcat.py
$> adb logcat -v time | grep --line-buffered `adb shell ps | grep com.android.chrome | cut -c 10-15` | coloredlogcat.py
If you restart your app often, you may want to consider putting endless.sh in your $PATH. This script is a wrapper around coloredlogcat.py and expects the app's package name as argument:
$> endless.sh com.android.chrome
Press CTRL+C to restart reading. This allows you to easily follow the app when it was assigned a new pid.
endless.sh briefly echoes its own pid before running logcat which allows you to stop the script with kill.