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Griffin

The most comprehensive way to identify the presence of a process in an Operating System involves accessing system logs and searching by its name. On Android devices, this can be done using a tool called logcat (Logs Catalog), which allows real-time access to system and application logs. The steps below describe how to prepare the device and configure the environment to run that tool.

Prepare device

This step is mainly to allow a communication between the computer and the mobile device for Debugging purposes.

1. Enable Developer option, follows the steps described here

   1. Depending on the device manufacturer the steps can be slightly different

2. Enable USB debugging, follow the steps described here

3. Connect the device to the computer using an USB cable, by doing so a dialog should popup asking permission to do so (see image below)

Now that the device is ready, let’s download the necessary tools and run the logcat tool:

1. Download Android SDK platform tools from here

   1. The actual tool needed here is adb (Android Debug Bridge), which allows the communication between the computer and the mobile device

2. Unpack the downloaded file and store its content in an easy to access/known folder

3. Open a terminal and navigate to the folder from number 2

4. Execute the following command:

   1. Windows

      1. ./adb logcat | findstr Griffin

   2. Linux/Mac

      1. ./adb logcat | grep Griffin

   3. In case the execution fails, try without the ./ in the beginning of the command so adb logcat ...

5. Once the command is executed and if the process in question is present, a continuous stream of logs will be outputted to the terminal (see image below):

   1. If not present, then nothing will be printed. If unsure whether the setup is working well, execute the command without the filtering:

      1. ./adb logcat

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