Jetpack Composables with TCP Socket Connection Crashing - sockets

Question

I am using Jetpack Composables and Android WiFi P2P API guide to create buttons and animation but trying to maintain an active TCP socket to output and receive data. However, whenever the program tries to establishes the connection using "socket.connect((InetSocketAddress())" it crashes the app.
class MainActivity : ComponentActivity() {
val manager: WifiP2pManager? by lazy(LazyThreadSafetyMode.NONE) {
getSystemService(Context.WIFI_P2P_SERVICE) as WifiP2pManager?
}
var channel: WifiP2pManager.Channel? = null
var receiver: BroadcastReceiver? = null
override fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle?) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState)
// Obtain an instance of WifiP2pManager and register application with the Wi-Fi P2P framework
// Initialize() method returns a WifiP2pManager.Channel, which is used to connect application to the Wi-Fi P2P framework
channel = manager?.initialize(this, mainLooper, null)
channel?.also { channel ->
receiver = manager?.let { WiFiDirectBroadcastReceiver(it, channel) }
}
setContent {
createButtons()
createAnimatingImages()
val socket = Socket()
var buf = ByteArray(1024)
try {
socket.bind(null)
socket.connect((InetSocketAddress(host, port)), 500)
if (socket.isConnected) {
println("Client Connected to " + host + " at " + port)
}
try {
val outputStream: OutputStream = socket.getOutputStream()
buf = doSomething(...)
outputStream.write(buf)
outputStream.flush()
} catch (e: IOException) {
println("IO Exception")
e.printStackTrace()
}
} catch (e: IOException) {
//catch logic
}
}