viewing log output on Android

If your app’s dying like crazy, or you want to see your own debugging output, and you want to see the logs/stacktrace, do this:

1. make sure your AVD’s started
2. open a command prompt and write adb shell
3. write logcat

android set color from xml file

Here’s how you set a color, defined in your colors.xml, from code:

textView.setTextColor(getResources().getColor(R.color.red));