App crashing on Samsung Galaxy S9+ (star2qltesq), Android 8.0

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Environment

  OS: Windows 10
  Node: 10.6.0
  Yarn: 1.7.0
  npm: 6.1.0
  Watchman: Not Found
  Xcode: N/A
  Android Studio: Version  3.1.0.0 AI-173.4819257

Packages: (wanted => installed)
  react: ^16.4.1 => 16.4.1
  react-native: 0.55.4 => 0.55.4

Description

I have released an app to the play store and its working fine but I got a crash with the following log in play console and I'm not sure what to make of it. The crash happens on Samsung Galaxy S9+ (star2qltesq) running Android 8.0.

Here is the crash log

backtrace:
  #00  pc 000000000001a6f0  /system/lib/libc.so (strlen+11)
  #01  pc 0000000000761c39  /vendor/lib/libllvm-glnext.so (_ZN14MetaDataExport19duplicateSymbolDataEP20QGLC_GLSL_SYMBOLDATAPKS0_+208)
  #02  pc 0000000000766d87  /vendor/lib/libllvm-glnext.so (_ZN13ShaderObjects17loadProgramBinaryEP15CompilerContextPvjP23QGLC_LINKPROGRAM_RESULT+1486)
  #03  pc 00000000006e5495  /vendor/lib/libllvm-glnext.so (_ZN15CompilerContext17loadProgramBinaryEPvjP23QGLC_LINKPROGRAM_RESULT+108)
  #04  pc 00000000007787c1  /vendor/lib/libllvm-glnext.so (_Z21QGLCLoadProgramBinaryPvS_jP23QGLC_LINKPROGRAM_RESULT+52)
  #05  pc 0000000000152023  /vendor/lib/egl/libGLESv2_adreno.so (_ZN17EsxShaderCompiler21LoadProgramBinaryBlobEP10EsxContextP10EsxProgramPKvjP10EsxInfoLog+170)
  #06  pc 000000000013490d  /vendor/lib/egl/libGLESv2_adreno.so (_ZN10EsxProgram17LoadProgramBinaryEP10EsxContextjPKvi+158)
  #07  pc 00000000000ac389  /vendor/lib/egl/libGLESv2_adreno.so (_ZN10EsxContext15GlProgramBinaryEjjPKvi+134)
  #08  pc 0000000000097553  /vendor/lib/egl/libGLESv2_adreno.so (glProgramBinary+42)
  #09  pc 00000000017491ff  /data/app/com.android.chrome-HHWtCaxowbzF03n80oXarQ==/base.apk

Here is a snippet from app/build.gradle file

def enableSeparateBuildPerCPUArchitecture = true
def enableProguardInReleaseBuilds = false

android {
    compileSdkVersion 27
    buildToolsVersion '27.0.3'

    defaultConfig {
        applicationId "xx.xxxx.xxx"
        multiDexEnabled true
        minSdkVersion 16
        targetSdkVersion 27
        versionCode x
        versionName "x.x.x"

        packagingOptions {
            exclude "lib/arm64-v8a/libimagepipeline.so"
        }
    }

    splits {
        abi {
            reset()
            enable enableSeparateBuildPerCPUArchitecture
            universalApk true
            include "armeabi-v7a"
        }
    }

    applicationVariants.all { variant ->
        variant.outputs.each { output ->
            def versionCodes = ['armeabi-v7a': 1]
            def abi = output.getFilter(OutputFile.ABI)
            if (abi != null) {
                output.versionCodeOverride = versionCodes.get(abi) * 300000 + variant.versionCode
            }
        }
    }
}

Upon further research it seems to be an issue with this specific device running a certain build. You can check out S9/S9+ specific WebView device crash report for more info. There were issues created on samsung forums which have not got any response yet

Issue 1

Issue 2

The solution according to the stackoverflow post linked above is to disable hardware acceleration for webview.
I'm not using an webview in the react native app but considering react native is written in js which is probably running a chromium instance, does the same logic apply? If so, how do you disable hardware acceleration in react native?

Reproducible Demo

It is a live project an I'm not at liberty to give the app name for now.

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