Using try/catch for preventing app from crashes

Question

I have been working on an Android app which uses try/catch frequently to prevent it from crashing even on places where there is no need. For example,

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Answer 1

It's definitely a bad programming practice.

From the current scenario, if there are hundreds of try catch like this, then you won't even know where the exception occurs without debugging the application, which is a nightmare if your application is in production environment.

But you can include a logger so that you get to know when an exception is throws (and why). It won't change your normal workflow.

...
try {
    View view = findViewById(R.id.toolbar);
}catch(Exception e){
    logger.log(Level.SEVERE, "an exception was thrown", e);
}
...