Crash in older version of analytics-react-native

[sushilr]

• analytics-react-native version: 1.5.3
• Integrations versions (if used): Amplitude (3.1.0 transitive dep)
• Android only (also forcing analytics-android to 4.10.4 to fix an ANR)

Steps to reproduce
We've started seeing this crash intermittently:

java.lang.NullPointerException · Attempt to invoke interface method 'int java.lang.CharSequence.length()' on a null object reference
Utils.java:208 com.segment.analytics.internal.Utils.isEmptyOrBlank
Analytics.java:1101 com.segment.analytics.Analytics$Builder.<init>
Analytics.java:178 com.segment.analytics.Analytics.with
RNAnalyticsModule.kt:44 com.segment.analytics.reactnative.core.RNAnalyticsModule.getAnalytics
RNAnalyticsModule.kt:216 com.segment.analytics.reactnative.core.RNAnalyticsModule.setup
Method.java:-2 java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke
JavaMethodWrapper.java:372 com.facebook.react.bridge.JavaMethodWrapper.invoke
JavaModuleWrapper.java:188 com.facebook.react.bridge.JavaModuleWrapper.invoke
NativeRunnable.java:-2 com.facebook.jni.NativeRunnable.run
Handler.java:980 android.os.Handler.handleCallback
Handler.java:104 android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage

I've seen posts about this in analytics-android repo and the recommendation was to create an issue here.

We are not ready yet to migrate to 2.x. I was wondering if there's a workaround to fix this crash since it is impacting our stability numbers. Does updating the android native dependency to 4.11.3 help?

Expected behavior
Does not crash

Actual behavior

[sushilr]

Closing since we decided to migrate to 2.x