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Working on a quick logging utility method. Normally I would use Aspects for this but working in the Android SDK where there isnt support for that.

How would I go about grabbing a method name in a generic way using reflection?

Also any performance hit in java with reflection ?

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Something like this will probably work:

Thread.currentThread().getStackTrace()[0].getMethodName()
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Thanks, going to try this out. Question: if I was to call this from a generic utility method, technically the methodName I would need would be in the caller method, I should be able just grab the previous stack frame from .getStackTrace ?
Yep. Every method call is a stack frame.
what about performance? if i am logging at minimum two places in every method in every class how much overhead is this going to be?
No idea. Probably not enough to worry about, since I don't think it's actually reflection per se.

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