Unable to use LanguageTool in Android Studio

Everytime I run the code i got the error ExceptionInitializeError. What would be the solution? thank you

What exactly do you run?

I am trying to implement grammar checking on my application. I’m using LanguageTool 2.4 in android studio

Could you send the complete stacktrace? Why are you using LT 2.4, which is very old?

Here

FATAL EXCEPTION: main
Process: com.example.bryan.languagetoolsample, PID: 26521
java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
at com.example.bryan.languagetoolsample.MainActivity$1.onClick(MainActivity.java:39)
at android.view.View.performClick(View.java:5714)
at android.widget.TextView.performClick(TextView.java:10926)
at android.view.View$PerformClick.run(View.java:22589)
at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:739)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:95)
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:148)
at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:7325)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:1230)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:1120)
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException: Attempt to invoke virtual method ‘java.net.URLConnection java.net.URL.openConnection()’ on a null object reference
at org.languagetool.JLanguageTool.getBuildDate(JLanguageTool.java:111)
at org.languagetool.JLanguageTool.(JLanguageTool.java:90)
at com.example.bryan.languagetoolsample.MainActivity$1.onClick(MainActivity.java:39)
at android.view.View.performClick(View.java:5714)
at android.widget.TextView.performClick(TextView.java:10926)
at android.view.View$PerformClick.run(View.java:22589)
at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:739)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:95)
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:148)
at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:7325)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:1230)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:1120)

I also tried LT 3.4 but I had an issue with targetCompatibility. That’s why I used LT 2.2

It seems to be this line: languagetool/languagetool-core/src/main/java/org/languagetool/JLanguageTool.java at v2.4 · languagetool-org/languagetool · GitHub

However, someone with Android knowledge will need to comment on this…

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ohh, I see. I’ll try to look a solution for that. Thanks a lot for your help.

@yangyang @dnaber let me know how to use language tool in android studio.

thank you