And there it goes.
And yes, the answer to life, the universe and everything is indeed 42.
And I think the debuggers help most when you have a reasonably good
idea of where your problem is, and you can focus in on just a few lines of code.
But, in many other situations, that kind of low level instruction by
instruction examination that debuggers are so good at, is a lot less helpful.
Instead it may be better to use more general tools
that instrument your system and let you monitor its behavior over time.
Android provides a number of these monitoring tools
in its Dalvik Debug Monitor Service, or DDMS.
Now today I'll talk about just four of these tools.
The file explorer, for viewing a devices file system, logcat, for
logging and displaying runtime events, traceview for displaying method
execution traces and the hierarchy viewer for examining user interface layouts.
Let's look at these tools and see how you can access them from the IDE.