NullPointerException: int android.widget.Editor$SelectionModifierCursorController.getMinTouchOffset()

It's a very strange Xiaomi device's OS exception. Even if I do have logs available from Fabric, the stack trace doesn't refer any of my code.

A crash details are below as reported in crashalytics(Fabric),

• 21K crashes

• All crashes on Xiaomi devices

• Crashes on Android OS version 6, 7 and 8

Crash Log:

# OS Version: 8.1.0
# Device: Redmi Note 5 pro
# RAM Free: 30.1%
# Disk Free: 74.2%

#0. Crashed: main
       at android.widget.Editor.touchPositionIsInSelection(Editor.java:1084)
       at android.widget.Editor.performLongClick(Editor.java:1205)
       at android.widget.TextView.performLongClick(TextView.java:10908)
       at android.view.View.performLongClick(View.java:6360)
       at android.view.View$CheckForLongPress.run(View.java:24768)
       at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:790)
       at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
       at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:171)
       at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:6606)
       at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java)
       at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(RuntimeInit.java:518)
       at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:823)

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Fatal Exception: java.lang.NullPointerException: Attempt to invoke virtual method 'int android.widget.Editor$SelectionModifierCursorController.getMinTouchOffset()' on a null object reference
       at android.widget.Editor.touchPositionIsInSelection(Editor.java:1084)
       at android.widget.Editor.performLongClick(Editor.java:1205)
       at android.widget.TextView.performLongClick(TextView.java:10908)
       at android.view.View.performLongClick(View.java:6360)
       at android.view.View$CheckForLongPress.run(View.java:24768)
       at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:790)
       at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
       at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:171)
       at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:6606)
       at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java)
       at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(RuntimeInit.java:518)
       at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:823)

#0. Crashed: main
       at android.widget.Editor.touchPositionIsInSelection(Editor.java:1084)
       at android.widget.Editor.performLongClick(Editor.java:1205)
       at android.widget.TextView.performLongClick(TextView.java:10908)
       at android.view.View.performLongClick(View.java:6360)
       at android.view.View$CheckForLongPress.run(View.java:24768)
       at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:790)
       at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
       at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:171)
       at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:6606)
       at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java)
       at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(RuntimeInit.java:518)
       at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:823)

Similar Reference:

https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/37127697

java.lang.NullPointerException with Nougat

Also asked on Xiaomi official forum http://en.miui.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=4595164

Please do provide any working solution as soon as possible. As users must not be happy with these crashes.

Thanks in advance.

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