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Filters Overview

ADBLogger introduces a flexible and powerful filtering system to help you manage Android logs more effectively. By applying filters, you can focus on the log messages that are critical for your debugging tasks.

Creating and Managing Filters

Filters let you specify criteria that log entries must meet to be displayed in the console. Manage filters through a dedicated interface where you can toggle, create, edit, or delete filters directly within Unity.

Accessing Filters

  • Navigate to the console toolbar and click the Filters toggle button. This opens the filter list view with all stored filters for the current device.
  • Filters are stored per device under ../ADBLogger/Configs/Consoles/Filters, with each filter file named after the device ID.

Creating a New Filter

Manual Creation: Click the [+] button at the top of the filter list view. This opens a popup where you define the filter's name and criteria.

Manual filter creation dialog

Field Description
Name Unique identifier for the filter
Log Tag Filters log entries by their tag
Log Message Filters entries containing specific messages
Process ID (PID) Shows only logs from a specific process
Thread ID (TID) Filters logs by thread identifier
Log Level Minimum severity level of logs to display

Filter configuration fields

Empty Fields

Leaving a field empty will match all entries for that criterion.

Quick Shortcut: Right-click on a log entry in the console log list and select Create Filter from the contextual menu. Choose to filter by Tag, Process ID, Thread ID, or Message. This option is not available when multiple entries are selected.

Create a filter from a log entry via right-click

Edit After Create

Enable the Edit After Create preference to automatically open the edit popup for newly created filters.

Edit After Create preference setting

Editing Filters

Select a filter in the list and choose Edit from the right-click menu. The filter popup opens pre-populated with the current settings.

Deleting Filters

Select a filter and choose Delete from the right-click menu. Confirm the deletion to remove it from your project.

For support regarding the Filters feature, visit our Support section or FAQ page.