Retrofit injection using application class - Dagger 2 not working why? - dagger-2

Question

Am trying to implement dependency injection with Dagger 2, the component is initialised at base level in the application class but the app freezes on launch, right on the line of code where am initialising the dagger component, below is my code.
The application class
public class BaseApplication extends Application {
private Context context;
private Application application;
private static BaseApplication baseApplication;
protected AppComponent appComponent;
#Override
public void onCreate() {
super.onCreate();
this.context = getApplicationContext();
this.application = this;
appComponent = DaggerAppComponent.builder()
.appModule(new AppModule(this)).build();
appComponent.inject(this);
//initializedApp();
}
public Context getContext() {
return context;
}
public Application getApplication() {
return application;
}
public AppComponent getAppComponent(){
return appComponent;
}
}
The AppComponent class
#Singleton
#Component(modules = {NetModule.class, AppModule.class})
public interface AppComponent {
void inject(BaseApplication baseApplication);
}
The NetModule class
#Module
public class NetModule {
#Provides
#Singleton
Retrofit provideRetrofit(){
return RetrofitClient.getInstance().getRetrofit();
}
}
The AppModule class
#Module
public class AppModule {
private Application application;
public AppModule(Application application){
this.application = application;
}
#Singleton
#Provides
Application provideApplication(){
return this.application;
}
}
Gradle dependency configuration for Dagger 2
annotationProcessor "com.google.dagger:dagger-compiler:$daggerVersion"
annotationProcessor "com.google.dagger:dagger-android-processor:$daggerVersion"
implementation "com.google.dagger:dagger:$daggerVersion"
implementation "com.google.dagger:dagger-android-support:$daggerVersion"
The daggerVersion being 2.23.
With this setup, the application starts but freezing with white screen, logs show that the program never runs beyond the appComponent initialisation in the BaseApplication even without injecting Retrofit anywhere in other classes. Can some body please help me figure this out, am basic to Dagger, I appreciate.
For more clarity this is my RetrofitClient class
public class RetrofitClient {
private final String TAG = RetrofitClient.class.getSimpleName();
private static String BASE_URL = "";
static {
if(BuildConfig.DEBUG){
BASE_URL = "http://0.0.0.0/api/v3/";
}else{
}
}
private static RetrofitClient mInstance;
private Retrofit retrofit;
private RetrofitClient() {
retrofit = new Retrofit.Builder()
.baseUrl(BASE_URL)
.client(getOkHttpClient().build())
.addConverterFactory(GsonConverterFactory.create())
.build();
}
public static synchronized RetrofitClient getInstance() {
if (mInstance == null) {
mInstance = new RetrofitClient();
}
return mInstance;
}
public Retrofit getRetrofit() {
return retrofit;
}
private OkHttpClient.Builder getOkHttpClient(){
OkHttpClient.Builder builder = new OkHttpClient.Builder();
builder.authenticator(new Authenticator());
if(BuildConfig.DEBUG){
loggingInterceptor.level(HttpLoggingInterceptor.Level.BODY);
builder.addNetworkInterceptor(loggingInterceptor);
}
return builder;
}
private HttpLoggingInterceptor loggingInterceptor = new HttpLoggingInterceptor(new HttpLoggingInterceptor.Logger() {
#Override
public void log(#NotNull String s) {
Log.d(TAG, s);
}
});
}