Catch FileNotFoundException in AsyncTask method

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Published on 2013-10-21T09:50:40Z Indexed on 2013/10/21 9:53 UTC
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I'm getting the favicon of a website with a method. Of course not every website has a favicon. So I want to catch it. The app doesn't crash if the website doesn't have a favicon but I still get an FileNotFoundException in the LogCat.

The problem I'm encountering is that I can't catch it

When I add `catch (FileNotFoundException f)

to my try-catch block it tells me

Unreachable catch block for FileNotFoundException. This exception is never thrown from the try statement body. 

The options I have is to remove it or to add a throws declaration to the doInBackground-method. The latter is not possible. This is the whole Try-Catch

try{
String baseURL      = getBaseURL ( sourceURLArr[i] );
System.out.println(baseURL + "/favicon.ico");
Bitmap favicon      = getBitmapFromURL( baseURL + "/favicon.ico");
Drawable fv         = new BitmapDrawable(getResources(),     
Bitmap.createScaledBitmap(favicon, 20, 20, true));
source      [i].setCompoundDrawablesWithIntrinsicBounds(fv, null, null, null);
} catch(NullPointerException e){

} catch(FileNotFoundException f){

}

I already tried to switch the FileNotFoundException with the NullPointerException but it was the same error. When I add the throws to the asynctask do in background method I get

Exception FileNotFoundException is not compatible with throws clause in AsyncTask<Void,Void,Void>.doInBackground(Void[])

How can I now catch the FileNotFoundException?

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