First of all, we need to make sure that at least log4j-api works
flawlessy on Android. I think this is already covered by
LOG4J2-1926.
But do we also aim for having log4j-core working on Android? It seems to
me that it could be a lot of work (and possibly force us to remove some
Android-incompatible features like JMX), and maybe not worth it.
Another option would be to accept and document the fact that log4j-core
does not support Android, and instead create an alternative
implementation which works in Android (likely much smaller and simpler).
Possibly with some Android specific stuff in it (like a LogCat Appender
as requested in LOG4J2-951).
We have some outstanding tickets about this (some very old):
LOG4J2-461
LOG4J2-728
LOG4J2-951
LOG4J2-1915
LOG4J2-1921
I tried to label all of them with "Android".
On 2017-07-05 21:29, Gary Gregory wrote:
An important customer for us is Apache HttpClient for which I already
switched to Log4j2 in the 5.0 (alpha level) branch. I am on the PMC there
as well. Any help to get Android cooking for Log4j modules would be g r e a
t. I am on deadline at work until the end of the month so my time is
limited and focused on what I must have.
