How to fix: “java.io.IOException: grpc failed” while using Geocoder.getFromLocation

Have you ever seen a crash or error logs like below, when accessing location data in Android.

I Geocoder: Geocoder getFromLocation --- mService = android.location.ILocationManager$Stub$Proxy@4f84fe, ex = grpc failed, return results = []
D AndroidRuntime: Shutting down VM
E AndroidRuntime: FATAL EXCEPTION: main
E AndroidRuntime: Process: com.your.packagename, PID: 19452
E AndroidRuntime: java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
E AndroidRuntime:        at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(RuntimeInit.java:503)
E AndroidRuntime:        at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:858)
E AndroidRuntime: Caused by: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
E AndroidRuntime:        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
E AndroidRuntime:        at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(RuntimeInit.java:493)
E AndroidRuntime:        ... 1 more
E AndroidRuntime: Caused by: java.io.IOException: grpc failed
E AndroidRuntime:        at android.location.Geocoder.getFromLocation(Geocoder.java:190)

The code used for reverse geodecoding is normally look like as below,

fusedLocationClient!!.lastLocation
        .addOnSuccessListener { location : Location? ->
            // Got last known location. In some rare situations this can be null.
		mLocation = location
                if (mLocation != null) {
                    getCompleteReadableAddress()
                }
        }

    fun getCompleteReadableAddress() {
        val geocoder = Geocoder(this, Locale.getDefault())
        // Address found using the Geocoder.
        var addresses: List<Address> = emptyList()
        if (mLocation != null) {
            Log.d(TAG,"Last known Latitude :: " + mLocation!!.getLatitude() + " Longitude :: " + mLocation!!.getLongitude()
            )
            addresses = geocoder.getFromLocation(
                mLocation!!.getLatitude(),
                mLocation!!.getLongitude(),
                // In this sample, we get just a single address.
                1
            )
            if (!addresses.isEmpty()) {
                val address = addresses[0]
                Log.d(TAG, "CompleteReadableAddress: " + address)
                Log.d(TAG, "Admin area " + address.adminArea)
            }
        }
    }

The crash has happened while execution of function “geocoder.getFromLocation” which actually does the reverse geodecoding.