Handling that annoying “java.lang.IndexOutOfBoundsException: getChars (5 … 0) has end before start” bug

Question

I get about 50 of these coming from my users each day.

I realise that this is a Motorola Droid bug - http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=5164

Is there anyway I can catch this error in my code?

Answer 1

The exception seems to be triggered deep within TextView, so unless you subclass TextView or the variants you use and catch that exception in a protected method, there's not much you can do.