Hack around Android freeze

Author: swansontec

android/settings.gradle

@@ -20,3 +20,17 @@ includeBuild('../node_modules/@react-native/gradle-plugin')
 expoAutolinking.useExpoModules()
 expoAutolinking.useExpoVersionCatalog()
 includeBuild(expoAutolinking.reactNativeGradlePlugin)
+
+// Hack around Android freeze:
+includeBuild('../node_modules/react-native') {
+  dependencySubstitution {
+    substitute(module("com.facebook.react:react-android"))
+      .using(project(":packages:react-native:ReactAndroid"))
+    substitute(module("com.facebook.react:react-native"))
+      .using(project(":packages:react-native:ReactAndroid"))
+    substitute(module("com.facebook.react:hermes-android"))
+      .using(project(":packages:react-native:ReactAndroid:hermes-engine"))
+    substitute(module("com.facebook.react:hermes-engine"))
+      .using(project(":packages:react-native:ReactAndroid:hermes-engine"))
+  }
+}

patches/react-native+0.79.2.patch

@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+diff --git a/node_modules/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/views/text/TextAttributeProps.java b/node_modules/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/views/text/TextAttributeProps.java
+index ae8bb00..a84c31b 100644
+--- a/node_modules/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/views/text/TextAttributeProps.java
++++ b/node_modules/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/views/text/TextAttributeProps.java
+@@ -397,8 +397,7 @@ public class TextAttributeProps {
+             : PixelUtil.toPixelFromDIP(mLetterSpacingInput);
+ 
+     if (mFontSize <= 0) {
+-      throw new IllegalArgumentException(
+-          "FontSize should be a positive value. Current value: " + mFontSize);
++      return 0;
+     }
+     // `letterSpacingPixels` and `mFontSize` are both in pixels,
+     // yielding an accurate em value.