Timber

Lesson in the Android Developer Roadmap · Stage 14: Debugging

Last updated 14 September 2026

What is Timber?

Timber is a logging utility library for Android built on top of the standard android.util.Log API. It provides a cleaner logging interface, automatically includes class names in log tags, and makes it easy to control logging behavior per build variant. In release builds, logging can be suppressed or redirected to a crash reporting service.

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Free resources to learn Timber

Open sourceTimber on GitHub

Timber: common questions

Can I learn Timber in Hindi?

This lesson is written in English. Once you sign in, open it in the interactive course and ask the AI tutor to explain Timber in Hindi or Hinglish. The tutor answers from this lesson’s own text, so it stays on the syllabus, and it runs on your own Google, OpenAI or Anthropic key.

Is this Timber tutorial for beginners?

It is lesson 104 of 113 in the free Android roadmap, in stage 14, Debugging. If you are new to Android, start from stage 1 and come back here in order; if you already know the earlier stages, this lesson stands on its own.