flykaw

flykaw is a wrapper for your Kotlin logger, in short awfykl or as an anagram flykaw.

Mostly a playground repository for Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile (KMM) libraries for me, use cases for this should be very rare.

Why?

Imagine you're using Timber and have Timber calls in all your code:

class HelloWorld {

    init {
      Timber.i("Hello World!")
    }

    fun greet() {
      Timber.d("Greetings!")
    }
}

Now that fancy new logging tool has been released and you'd like to replace Timber, what means you have to touch every class and replace all Timber calls.

With flykaw you only have one place where you would be using Timber instead:

// Create your own Logger implementation
class TimberLogger : Logger {

    override fun log(level: LogLevel, tag: String, msg: String, throwable: Throwable?) {
      Timber.log(level.ordinaryValue, throwable, msg)
    }
}

// Make your logger available to flykaw
LogConfig.setLogger(TimberLogger())

class HelloWorld {

  init {
    // use flykaw's logging methods
    logInfo("Hello World!")
  }

  fun greet() {
    logDebug("Greetings!")
  }
}

Now, you would only need to provide a different logger to LogConfig.setLogger() and you would be done.

Download

flykaw is available on mavenCentral() as a KMM library, so you can either add it to your commonMain source set or as usual as an Android library:

dependencies {
    implementation("io.github.syex:flykaw:$version")
}