Fix Drawable Runtime - More Info in Description

The AppCompat Theme Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar provides a default
Drawable resource for AppCompatEditText. The resource is located in
@drawable/abc_edit_text_material.xml

https://chromium.googlesource.com/android_tools/+/7200281446186c7192cb02f54dc2b38e02d705e5/sdk/extras/android/support/v7/appcompat/res/drawable/abc_edit_text_material.xml

A Runtime Error is triggered in a scenario with the following conditions:

1) Rendering a large number of TextInputs in the screen with a key prop
2) Triggering re-render with setInterval

The scenario is also experienced with FlatList and ONLY using TextInput
component.

The following Runtime Error is triggered:

NullPointerException:tempt to invoke virtual method 'android.graphics.drawable.Drawable android.graphics.drawable.Drawable$ConstantState.newDrawable(android.content.res.Resources)

It is caused from the following line from abc_edit_text_material.xml

<item android:state_pressed="false" android:state_focused="false" android:drawable="@drawable/abc_textfield_default_mtrl_alpha"/>

I posted a Minimal Reproducible Example at #17530 (comment)

This commit simply changes RNTester to use a custom drawable resource
for TextInput named @drawable/edit_text.

RNTester/android/app/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml

@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
  android:banner="@drawable/tv_banner"
  android:icon="@drawable/launcher_icon"
  android:label="@string/app_name"
- android:theme="@style/Theme.ReactNative.AppCompat.Light" >
+ android:theme="@style/AppTheme">
  <activity
  android:name=".RNTesterActivity"
  android:label="@string/app_name"

RNTester/android/app/src/main/res/drawable/edit_text.xml

@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<!-- Copyright (C) 2014 The Android Open Source Project
+
+ Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+ http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ limitations under the License.
+-->
+<inset xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
+ android:insetLeft="@dimen/abc_edit_text_inset_horizontal_material"
+ android:insetRight="@dimen/abc_edit_text_inset_horizontal_material"
+ android:insetTop="@dimen/abc_edit_text_inset_top_material"
+ android:insetBottom="@dimen/abc_edit_text_inset_bottom_material">
+
+ <selector>
+ <item android:state_enabled="false" android:drawable="@drawable/abc_textfield_default_mtrl_alpha"/>
+ <item android:drawable="@drawable/abc_textfield_activated_mtrl_alpha"/>
+ </selector>
+
+</inset>
+

RNTester/android/app/src/main/res/values/styles.xml

@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 <resources>
-
  <!-- Base application theme. -->
  <style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar">
  <!-- Customize your theme here. -->
  <item name="android:textColor">#000000</item>
+ <item name="android:editTextBackground">@drawable/edit_text</item>
  </style>
-
 </resources>
+