I followed the same and it works for debug build, but the app crashes in the release build. My RN version is 0.64.0. I bumped into this fix and tried that and it throws "Project 'ReactAndroid' not found in root project xxxx.". Not sure how am i suppose to fix ad i'm under the pump. https://medium.com/@zahitesh/android-14-sdk-34-support-for-react-native-ver-0-69-x-2554f4dc937d