To display the system log inside your application, filtered for your own application-name, you could insert the following as an inner class: private static final String LogCatCommand = "logcat ActivityManager:I *:S" ; private static final String ClearLogCatCommand = "logcat -c" ; private class MonitorLogThread extends Thread{ public MonitorLogThread(){ } BufferedReader br ; @Override public void run() { try { Process process; process = Runtime.getRuntime().exec( ClearLogCatCommand ); process = Runtime.getRuntime().exec( LogCatCommand ); br = new BufferedReader ( new InputStreamReader (process.getInputStream())); ...