🦀 RustyCat

rcat "com.example.app.*"

About

RustyCat is a modern Android logcat viewer written in Rust that makes debugging Android applications more pleasant with colored output and smart formatting.

Features

• 🎨 Colored log levels (Debug, Info, Warning, Error, Verbose, Fatal)
• 🏷️ Smart tag coloring with 12 distinct colors
• ⏰ Precise timestamps with millisecond precision
• 📱 Package filtering support (e.g., com.example.app or com.example.*)
• 📝 Intelligent tag display (shows tags only when they change)
• 📊 Clean formatting with proper padding and alignment
• 🔄 Multi-line log support with proper indentation
• ⌨️ Interactive mode (press 'q' to quit)
• 🧹 Automatic logcat buffer clearing on start

Installation

cargo install rustycat-android

Usage

rcat

Filter by package name:

rcat com.example.app

Filter with wildcard:

rcat "com.example.*"

Hide timestamps:

rcat --no-timestamp
# or
rcat -t

Acknowledgments

Built with ❤️ using Rust

Inspired by traditional logcat viewers like pidcat