> (In reply to comment #14) > > Taking into account my comment above, maybe we should relax the tag length > > limitation from 23 to at least 80? > Don't agree because it makes things more difficult. How would "is...Enabled" > methods be implemented then: delegate to the backing Android "isLoggable" > logger method? No longer possible directly because they would throw IAE if > tag length > 23. Extend the AndroidLogger such that it implements its own > logic on this? Possible, but, first, it makes it more heavyweight, which, > recalling the original design goal of having the most simple adapter between > SLF4J and AndroidLogging, breaks this goal. > > I would really love to see the limitation issue being solved at Android side > rather than working around it. At first I wished to write that the issue would *never* be solved on the existing devices, only in the upcoming Android versions and bla-bla-bla. But then I asked myself why for the hell that checks for 23 characters exists at all? And only in "Log.isLoggable" method. So I've dug a little bit deeper into the source code and reread the documentation carefully (yeah, I should have done this before posting my first comment here), and that's what I've realized: 1) "Log.isLoggable: checks to see whether or not a log for the specified tag is loggable at the specified level. The default level of any tag is set to INFO ... You can change the default level by setting a system property: setprop log.tag.<YOUR_LOG_TAG> <LEVEL>" 2) But system property name can't exceed 32 character including terminating '\0' http://androidxref.com/4.3_r2.1/xref/system/core/include/cutils/properties.h#31 3) Taking into account p.1 and p.2 we can safely conclude that for ALL tag lengths > 23 "AndroidLogger.isTraceEnabled" and "isDebugEnabled" should return "false", and all others "is...Enabled" should return "true". Do you see what I mean?