[Fixed in 0.57] [Regression] Release Android Build Fails on ARM Emulators in 30%-50% times since 0.49

[isnifer]

Environment

Run react-native info in your terminal and paste its contents here.

Environment:
  OS: macOS High Sierra 10.13.6
  Node: 9.11.2
  Yarn: 1.3.2
  npm: 6.4.1
  Watchman: 4.9.0
  Xcode: Xcode 9.4.1 Build version 9F2000
  Android Studio: 3.1 AI-173.4907809

Packages: (wanted => installed)
  react: 16.5.0 => 16.5.0
  react-native: 0.56.0 => 0.56.0

Description for this Regression

Hi! I'm working at Tipsi. Some of you have used our tipsi-stripe library.
We are developing not only this library for React-Native and we have rules:

• All our modules should have example projects
• Appium E2E-tests ran against these examples.

We are using Travis CI to run E2E-tests. Travis CI allows us to run Android tests only on Emulators with ARM processors architecture.
Currently, we are running tests on emulators on top Android-21 SDK (Android 5.0.1) without gms.
We have noticed that React-Native Apps since 0.49 starting OK only in 50% times, since 0.53.3 only in 30% times on ARM Emulators.

• ANDROID ERROR EXAMPLE SCREENSHOT
• JOB DEMONSTRATES THE ISSUE

IMPORTANT:

• If you will rotate a screen of the emulator — you'll see the demo app

QA

Q: What about x86 emulators?
A: On x86 emulators, every demo project works fine

Q: Why do not use x86 emulators on Travis CI?
A: Travis CI does not support them:

emulator: ERROR: x86 emulation currently requires hardware acceleration!

Q: What about iOS?
A: On iOS Simulators, every demo project works fine

Q: Is there a job demonstrates that on 0.48.4 everything is OK?
A: Yes

• Pipeline: https://travis-ci.org/isnifer/tipsi-travis-scripts/builds/426648697
• Job: https://travis-ci.org/isnifer/tipsi-travis-scripts/jobs/426648699

Reproducible Demo

https://github.com/isnifer/tipsi-travis-scripts/tree/feature/scripts

# inside the root of the folder
npm run ci

Update from September 13, 2018

Q: Is there a job demonstrates that on 0.57.0 everything is OK?
A: Yes

• Pipeline: https://travis-ci.org/tipsi/tipsi-travis-scripts/builds/427959587
• Job: https://travis-ci.org/tipsi/tipsi-travis-scripts/jobs/427959589

[react-native-bot]

It looks like you are using an older version of React Native. Please update to the latest release, v0.56 and verify if the issue still exists.

The ":rewind:Old Version" label will be removed automatically once you edit your original post with the results of running react-native info on a project using the latest release.

[isnifer]

@react-native-bot yes, the issue exists since 0.49

[isnifer]

@hramos I'm closing this issue. I have tested it on 0.57.0 and it works — https://travis-ci.org/tipsi/tipsi-travis-scripts/builds/427959587