Native Development

[singpolyma]

Is it possible to get access to the console (or at least the stderr) output of a Core NDK app deployed to th simulator?  I tried telnetting in to the simulator to run it, but the devuser does not have permissions on app folders.

Or perhaps there is a debug log like for Android?

If possible, I'd like to avoid using the IDE for this.

[peter9477]

I'm not sure what "Core NDK" refers to, but any app that is packaged with the "-devMode" option would be installed under one of the 100 development userids, all of which the "devuser" can access when you SSH into the simulator or device.

For apps which are NOT built with -devMode, there is certainly no way you can see their output outside of the apps themselves, since that would be a big security problem.

[singpolyma]

From https://developer.blackberry.com/develop/platform_choice/ndk.html, "Core Native" means "not Cascades".

I packaged with -devMode and that let me get far enough to solve the initial problems, thanks   Though it seems that running the apps over telnet there is no way to exactly recreate the sort of env that running them from the launcher uses?  And also they don't actually show up on the screen.  Well, it's a start.

[peter9477 · Accepted solution]

You don't actually run the app from the console, but you can use command line tools to look at the log output of the app.

Basically SSH in (it's not actually telnet) and change to the app's folder under /accounts/1000/appdata/... then run "tail -f logs/log" after launching the app, or just "cat logs/log". If the output you're interested in is no longer going to logs/log because of the new slogger2 stuff, you'd use some variant of "slog2info -w" instead.

You're quite correct that attempting to run the app from the console does not give it the same environment, and except in a very few special cases it serves no real purpose.