[AV] Return empyt list as cookies list instead of null

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ This is the log of notable changes to the Expo client that are developer-facing.
 
 ### 🐛 Bug fixes
 
+- Fixed `MediaPlayer` not working on some android devices by [@mczernek](http://github.com/mczernek) ([#6320](https://github.com/expo/expo/pull/6320))
 - Fixed `Audio.setAudioModeAsync` to auto-fill with previously set values (falls back to default values) if not all fields are provided by [@cruzach](https://github.com/cruzach) ([#5593](https://github.com/expo/expo/pull/5593))
 - Fixed crash when `BarCodeScanner` was mounted more than 128 times. ([#5719](https://github.com/expo/expo/pull/5719) by [@geovannimp](https://github.com/geovannimp))
 - Fixed URI parsing in `expo-video-thumbnails`. ([#5711](https://github.com/expo/expo/pull/5711) by [@lukmccall](https://github.com/lukmccall))

packages/expo-av/android/src/main/java/expo/modules/av/player/MediaPlayerData.java

@@ -420,7 +420,7 @@ private List<HttpCookie> getHttpCookiesList() {
             }
             return httpCookies;
           } else {
-            return null;
+            return Collections.emptyList();
           }
         } catch (IOException e) {
           // do nothing, we'll return an empty list