Patch to work around a crash in RN internals

[gaearon]

Work around facebook/react-native#44842.

I don't have a way to verify whether this works. It would at least be nice to trigger this codepath somehow and verify it runs like before in the common case. That said, the change itself is a trivial change and maybe we can just get it in and try it.

[render]

Your Render PR Server URL is https://social-app-pr-4426.onrender.com.

Follow its progress at https://dashboard.render.com/web/srv-cphs8f6g1b2c73cb2hig.

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[haileyok]

Cool, lets try it as long as CI runs

[cortinico]

QQ @gaearon: are you folks building React Native Android from source? (see https://reactnative.dev/contributing/how-to-build-from-source).

If not, this change will be ignored as the touched .java file is precompiled so the changes to it inside the NPM package will be ignored.

[gaearon]

Hmm! We're just using Expo. But I thought in the past that these overrides worked... (cc @haileyok to confirm)

[gaearon]

Is just the Android code precompiled?

[haileyok]

hmm. we've definitely been able to patch for iOS (we have two load bearing patches for ios right now), don't know if we have patched for android before though! would be fairly easy to test if we want by throwing somewhere and seeing if things break.

[cortinico]

Is just the Android code precompiled?

Yes the Android code is precompiled, the iOS one is not. So unless you turn on build from source on Android, the patches are ignored.

[gaearon]

Fascinating — thanks for the heads-up.