In development mode it's working fine as it should but this occur when I'm running react-native run-android --variant=release.
I haven't test the temp workaround (gestureHandlerRootHOC) but I believe this is critical
Same issue here. I use this module in conjunction with react-navigation-drawer. In dev mode my menu works as expected. In release mode each drawer interaction results in app crash. Before upgrading to RN 0.61.2 the menu worked fine.
I added
import 'react-native-gesture-handler'
at top of index.js file as suggested in #320 and it works now 
it's like a magic
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I added
import 'react-native-gesture-handler'at top of index.js file as suggested in #320 and it works now