samsung mobile - java.lang.NullPointerException with Nougat

Question

My app has been humming along nicely through various Android versions. I have users running it on Android 4.3, 5.0, 5.1 and 6.0 with no problems. However a user with a S7 Edge has just updated with Android 7.0 and the app is crashing when text is pasted into an EditText field (This is the first and only thing you do with this app - it starts you paste in text into a box and then the app parses the text).

I have looked at many threads on Null Pointer Exceptions and I have looked at the source for Editor.java but nothing is obvious. The stack trace below shows no problems with my code. Any ideas what they changed with 7.0 that could be causing this?

java.lang.NullPointerException: Attempt to invoke virtual method 'boolean android.widget.Editor$SelectionModifierCursorController.isDragAcceleratorActive()' on a null object reference
at android.widget.Editor.updateFloatingToolbarVisibility(Editor.java:1520)
at android.widget.Editor.onTouchEvent(Editor.java:1475)
at android.widget.TextView.onTouchEvent(TextView.java:10024)
at android.view.View.dispatchTouchEvent(View.java:10725)
at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchTransformedTouchEvent(ViewGroup.java:2865)
at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchTouchEvent(ViewGroup.java:2550)
at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchTransformedTouchEvent(ViewGroup.java:2865)
at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchTouchEvent(ViewGroup.java:2550)
at android.widget.ScrollView.dispatchTouchEvent(ScrollView.java:738)
at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchTransformedTouchEvent(ViewGroup.java:2865)
at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchTouchEvent(ViewGroup.java:2550)
at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchTransformedTouchEvent(ViewGroup.java:2865)
at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchTouchEvent(ViewGroup.java:2550)
at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchTransformedTouchEvent(ViewGroup.java:2865)
at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchTouchEvent(ViewGroup.java:2550)
at com.android.internal.policy.DecorView.superDispatchTouchEvent(DecorView.java:505)
at com.android.internal.policy.PhoneWindow.superDispatchTouchEvent(PhoneWindow.java:1863)
at android.app.Activity.dispatchTouchEvent(Activity.java:3226)
at com.android.internal.policy.DecorView.dispatchTouchEvent(DecorView.java:467)
at android.view.View.dispatchPointerEvent(View.java:10954)
at android.view.ViewRootImpl$ViewPostImeInputStage.processPointerEvent(ViewRootImpl.java:5051)
at android.view.ViewRootImpl$ViewPostImeInputStage.onProcess(ViewRootImpl.java:4908)
at android.view.ViewRootImpl$InputStage.deliver(ViewRootImpl.java:4439)
at android.view.ViewRootImpl$InputStage.onDeliverToNext(ViewRootImpl.java:4492)
at android.view.ViewRootImpl$InputStage.forward(ViewRootImpl.java:4458)
at android.view.ViewRootImpl$AsyncInputStage.forward(ViewRootImpl.java:4591)
at android.view.ViewRootImpl$InputStage.apply(ViewRootImpl.java:4466)
at android.view.ViewRootImpl$AsyncInputStage.apply(ViewRootImpl.java:4648)
at android.view.ViewRootImpl$InputStage.deliver(ViewRootImpl.java:4439)
at android.view.ViewRootImpl$InputStage.onDeliverToNext(ViewRootImpl.java:4492)
at android.view.ViewRootImpl$InputStage.forward(ViewRootImpl.java:4458)
at android.view.ViewRootImpl$InputStage.apply(ViewRootImpl.java:4466)
at android.view.ViewRootImpl$InputStage.deliver(ViewRootImpl.java:4439)
at android.view.ViewRootImpl.deliverInputEvent(ViewRootImpl.java:6936)
at android.view.ViewRootImpl.doProcessInputEvents(ViewRootImpl.java:6875)
at android.view.ViewRootImpl.enqueueInputEvent(ViewRootImpl.java:6836)
at android.view.ViewRootImpl$WindowInputEventReceiver.onInputEvent(ViewRootImpl.java:7046)
at android.view.InputEventReceiver.dispatchInputEvent(InputEventReceiver.java:185)
at android.view.InputEventReceiver.nativeConsumeBatchedInputEvents(Native Method)
at android.view.InputEventReceiver.consumeBatchedInputEvents(InputEventReceiver.java:176)
at android.view.ViewRootImpl.doConsumeBatchedInput(ViewRootImpl.java:7010)
at android.view.ViewRootImpl$ConsumeBatchedInputRunnable.run(ViewRootImpl.java:7073)
at android.view.Choreographer$CallbackRecord.run(Choreographer.java:927)
at android.view.Choreographer.doCallbacks(Choreographer.java:702)
at android.view.Choreographer.doFrame(Choreographer.java:632)
at android.view.Choreographer$FrameDisplayEventReceiver.run(Choreographer.java:913)
at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:751)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:95)
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:154)
at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:6688)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:1468)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:1358)

Answer 1

I resolved it by removing

MyEditText.setMovementMethod(new ScrollingMovementMethod());