fix: Crash if WebView is disabled

[Pajn]

Summary

When the webview is updated by play store, all apps that has loaded webview gets killed. For background see https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/228611949?pli=1

We have a long-running app and don't want this to happen and while we are not using webview anywhere, we are using websockets that loads it for reading cookies, however we are not using cookies to authenticate the websocket and thus want to disable the webview to avoid loading it unnecessarily and then getting killed unnecessarily.

The webview has support for beeing disabled https://developer.android.com/reference/android/webkit/WebView#disableWebView() however as-is this crashes React Native. It seems to me like this case is very similar to not having web view installed and should be handled in the same way.

Changelog

[Android] [Fixed] - Avoid crash in ForwardingCookieHandler if webview is disabled

Test Plan

Add WebView.disableWebView(); as the first line in MainActivity.onCreate.

[analysis-bot]

Platform	Engine	Arch	Size (bytes)	Diff
android	hermes	arm64-v8a	7,617,924	+12
android	hermes	armeabi-v7a	7,032,157	-6
android	hermes	x86	7,917,986	+13
android	hermes	x86_64	7,891,625	+35
android	jsc	arm64-v8a	9,495,632	-62
android	jsc	armeabi-v7a	8,273,240	-77
android	jsc	x86	9,433,426	-53
android	jsc	x86_64	10,026,421	-43

Base commit: 2452c5f16e8bbbf6f17d09e77d3b8f073837bf18 Branch: main

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[cipolleschi]

Hi @Pajn, thanks for the PR. Could you please rebase on main? We should have fixed the CI issues.

[cipolleschi]

Sorry to ask that, but could you rebase again? The CI is still red but for some other commits that landed in between.. :(

[analysis-bot]

Platform	Engine	Arch	Size (bytes)	Diff
ios	-	universal	n/a	--

Base commit: 2452c5f16e8bbbf6f17d09e77d3b8f073837bf18 Branch: main

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[Pajn]

Sorry, my additions skipped the earlier nullcheck. It should be correct now.

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This pull request was successfully merged by @Pajn in 5451cd48bd0166ba70d516e3a11c6786bc22171a.

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