Small shell script to find process id via android shell and attach "strace" to it.

sticker.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash

version="0.0.1"

TARGET_PROCESS=$1

if [ ! $TARGET_PROCESS ]; then
    echo 
	echo "Usage: sticker [process name]"
	echo
	exit
fi

# get process info
INFO=`adb shell ps | grep $TARGET_PROCESS`
if [ $? = 1 ]; then
	echo "cannot find process info, abort"
	exit
fi

# TODO : what if we grep more than 1 processes??

IFS=' ' INFO_ARRAY=( $INFO )

echo 
echo "Found process:"
echo "$(tput setaf 6)${INFO_ARRAY[8]}$(tput sgr0)"
echo

# get pid
PID=${INFO_ARRAY[1]}

# trace pid and write to "trace.txt"
adb shell strace -fFp $PID | tee trace.txt