hackfix for android splashscreen on api <= 25 (white screen)

[haileyok]

See: https://bsky.app/profile/sndtrkng.bsky.social/post/3khr3vnm5cm2m

I ran into this while testing a different PR and marked it up as an emulator issue, but it doesn't seem to be. It actually looks like some sort of issue with MaskedView. On platform versions <= 25, the maskElement doesn't seem to work at all. I suspect it is something to do with this: https://github.com/react-native-masked-view/masked-view#androidrenderingmode

Setting that prop to software doesn't help though. I don't think there's a very large number of people on <= 25 so probably this isn't affecting too many users, but there are some. Maybe you can find a better fix 🤷‍♀️

Of note though, it doesn't matter what you set as the mask element. An empty <View /> will cause the issue, so it might not be an animation issue at all. There might be some more info in that repo that could help to resolve it, unsure.

Feel free to merge or not, just wanted to point out the actual problem since I was at first thinking the animation itself needed to be debugged and wasted about 15 minutes trying that.

I'm filing this one under: "what the fuck android, why do you even exist."

[pfrazee]

Yeah this is great. Thanks @haileyok !!