This has been experimental forever and never fully shipped. I suspect that it's causing ENG-7774, but unfortunately I have no way to prove it because I don't have a repro.

We use LayoutAnimation in three places:

1. The calendar tab
2. Animating messages when they're focused
3. Animating the content window along with the keyboard when the keyboard appears or disappears (in KeyboardAvoidingView). In my experience, this has never worked on Android. I think that's because easing is never set in keyboard events

To be honest, I don't have a good test plan here because I've never been able to reproduce the original issue. While I don't have a good way to test, I think it's better to proceed with this, as the issue in question is pretty bad, and there isn't much cost here, since there aren't that many animations that rely on LayoutAnimation.