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 bad practice to use catch(Exception e){} because you're essentially ignoring the error. What you probably want to do is something more like:

try {
    //run code that could crash here
} catch (Exception e) {
    System.out.println(e.getMessage());
}