InputConnection.finishComposingText() NullPointerException

Question

I am getting this error log on crashlytics. I don't know what makes this crash. It occurs on Android 4.x, 5.x, 6.x devices. (Samsung, Sony, LGE etc.)

Fatal Exception: java.lang.NullPointerException: Attempt to invoke interface method 'boolean android.view.inputmethod.InputConnection.finishComposingText()' on a null object reference    at android.view.inputmethod.InputConnectionWrapper.finishComposingText(InputConnectionWrapper.java:78)    at android.view.inputmethod.InputMethodManager.checkFocusNoStartInput(InputMethodManager.java:1809)    at android.view.inputmethod.InputMethodManager.checkFocus(InputMethodManager.java:1761)    at android.view.inputmethod.InputMethodManager.isActive(InputMethodManager.java:883)    at android.widget.Editor$CursorAnchorInfoNotifier.updatePosition(Editor.java:4095)    at android.widget.Editor$PositionListener.onPreDraw(Editor.java:2564)    at android.view.ViewTreeObserver.dispatchOnPreDraw(ViewTreeObserver.java:1018)    at android.view.ViewRootImpl.performTraversals(ViewRootImpl.java:2313)    at android.view.ViewRootImpl.doTraversal(ViewRootImpl.java:1301)    at android.view.ViewRootImpl$TraversalRunnable.run(ViewRootImpl.java:7021)    at android.view.Choreographer$CallbackRecord.run(Choreographer.java:777)    at android.view.Choreographer.doCallbacks(Choreographer.java:590)    at android.view.Choreographer.doFrame(Choreographer.java:560)    at android.view.Choreographer$FrameDisplayEventReceiver.run(Choreographer.java:763)    at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:739)    at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:95)    at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:145)    at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:6918)    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java)    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:372)    at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:1404)    at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:1199) 

Answer 1

As mentioned here, this can happen because of the Android Advanced Profiling tool.

Disable it from the Run/Debug Configurations dialog: