"Attempt to invoke virtual method com.facebook.react.uimanager.events on a null object reference" Error in react native

Question

Having this issue after upgrading from react native 0.75.2 to 0.77.0

Attempt to invoke virtual method 'com.facebook.react.uimanager.events.EventDispatcher com.facebook.react.uimanager.UIManagerModule.getEventDispatcher()' on a null object reference

Emulator error

is there any conflict with my dependencies?

 "dependencies": {
    "@google/generative-ai": "^0.16.0",
    "@react-native-async-storage/async-storage": "^2.1.1",
    "@react-native-community/cli": "^15.1.3",
    "@react-native-firebase/app": "^21.8.0",
    "@react-native-firebase/auth": "^21.8.0",
    "@react-native-google-signin/google-signin": "^12.2.1",
    "@react-native-masked-view/masked-view": "^0.3.2",
    "@react-navigation/bottom-tabs": "^7.2.0",
    "@react-navigation/native": "^7.0.14",
    "@react-navigation/native-stack": "^7.2.0",
    "@supabase/supabase-js": "^2.45.1",
    "@types/react-native-vector-icons": "^6.4.18",
    "axios": "^1.7.2",
    "expo": "^52.0.31",
    "expo-modules-core": "^2.2.1",
    "formik": "^2.4.6",
    "JSON": "^1.0.0",
    "markdown-to-html": "^0.0.0",
    "react": "^18.3.1",
    "react-native": "^0.77.0",
    "react-native-gesture-handler": "^2.23.0",
    "react-native-image-color-picker": "^1.0.4",
    "react-native-image-colors": "^1.3.1",
    "react-native-image-placeholder": "^1.0.14",
    "react-native-linear-gradient": "^2.8.3",
    "react-native-markdown-display": "^7.0.2",
    "react-native-reanimated": "^3.16.7",
    "react-native-render-html": "^6.3.4",
    "react-native-safe-area-context": "^5.2.0",
    "react-native-screens": "^4.6.0",
    "react-native-url-polyfill": "^2.0.0",
    "react-native-vector-icons": "^10.1.0",
    "yup": "^1.4.0"
  },

I saw logcat in android studio and it showed this

getOrCreateModule(): Unable to create module "UIManager" (legacy: false, turbo: true)
thrown when executing UIFrameGuarded
java.lang.NullPointerException: Attempt to invoke virtual method 'com.facebook.react.uimanager.events.EventDispatcher com.facebook.react.uimanager.UIManagerModule.getEventDispatcher()' 
 on a null object reference at
com.th3rdwave.safeareacontext.SafeAreaProviderManager.addEventEmitters(SafeAreaProviderManager.java:43)
at com.th3rdwave.safeareacontext.SafeAreaProviderManager.addEventEmitters(SafeAreaProviderManager.java:19)
at com.facebook.react.uimanager.ViewManager.createViewInstance(ViewManager.java:193)
at com.facebook.react.uimanager.ViewManager.createView(ViewManager.java:122)
at com.facebook.react.fabric.mounting.SurfaceMountingManager.createViewUnsafe(SurfaceMountingManager.java:673)
at com.facebook.react.fabric.mounting.SurfaceMountingManager.preallocateView(SurfaceMountingManager.java:1078)
at com.facebook.react.fabric.mounting.mountitems.PreAllocateViewMountItem.execute(PreAllocateViewMountItem.kt:38)
at com.facebook.react.fabric.mounting.MountItemDispatcher.executeOrEnqueue(MountItemDispatcher.java:370)
at com.facebook.react.fabric.mounting.MountItemDispatcher.dispatchMountItems(MountItemDispatcher.java:246)
at com.facebook.react.fabric.mounting.MountItemDispatcher.tryDispatchMountItems(MountItemDispatcher.java:122)
at com.facebook.react.fabric.FabricUIManager$DispatchUIFrameCallback.doFrameGuarded(FabricUIManager.java:1392)
at com.facebook.react.fabric.GuardedFrameCallback.doFrame(GuardedFrameCallback.kt:22)
at com.facebook.react.modules.core.ReactChoreographer.frameCallback$lambda$1(ReactChoreographer.kt:59)
at com.facebook.react.modules.core.ReactChoreographer.$r8$lambda$nSkFhrr5T7rop_XKwzlLov4NLLw(Unknown Source:0)
at com.facebook.react.modules.core.ReactChoreographer$$ExternalSyntheticLambda0.doFrame(D8$$SyntheticClass:0)
at android.view.Choreographer$CallbackRecord.run(Choreographer.java:1337)
at android.view.Choreographer$CallbackRecord.run(Choreographer.java:1348)
at android.view.Choreographer.doCallbacks(Choreographer.java:952)
at android.view.Choreographer.doFrame(Choreographer.java:878)
at android.view.Choreographer$FrameDisplayEventReceiver.run(Choreographer.java:1322)
at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:958)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
at android.os.Looper.loopOnce(Looper.java:205)
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:294)
at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:8176)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(RuntimeInit.java:552)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:971)
ReactHost{0}.handleHostException(message = "Attempt to invoke virtual method 'com.facebook.react.uimanager.events.EventDispatcher com.facebook.react.uimanager.UIManagerModule.getEventDispatcher()' on a null object reference")
Exception in native call
java.lang.NullPointerException: Attempt to invoke virtual method 'com.facebook.react.uimanager.events.EventDispatcher com.facebook.react.uimanager.UIManagerModule.getEventDispatcher()' on a null object reference
at com.th3rdwave.safeareacontext.SafeAreaProviderManager.addEventEmitters(SafeAreaProviderManager.java:43)
at com.th3rdwave.safeareacontext.SafeAreaProviderManager.addEventEmitters(SafeAreaProviderManager.java:19)
at com.facebook.react.uimanager.ViewManager.createViewInstance(ViewManager.java:193)
at com.facebook.react.uimanager.ViewManager.createView(ViewManager.java:122)
at com.facebook.react.fabric.mounting.SurfaceMountingManager.createViewUnsafe(SurfaceMountingManager.java:673)
at com.facebook.react.fabric.mounting.SurfaceMountingManager.preallocateView(SurfaceMountingManager.java:1078)
at com.facebook.react.fabric.mounting.mountitems.PreAllocateViewMountItem.execute(PreAllocateViewMountItem.kt:38)
at com.facebook.react.fabric.mounting.MountItemDispatcher.executeOrEnqueue(MountItemDispatcher.java:370)
at com.facebook.react.fabric.mounting.MountItemDispatcher.dispatchMountItems(MountItemDispatcher.java:246)
at com.facebook.react.fabric.mounting.MountItemDispatcher.tryDispatchMountItems(MountItemDispatcher.java:122)
at com.facebook.react.fabric.FabricUIManager$DispatchUIFrameCallback.doFrameGuarded(FabricUIManager.java:1392)
at com.facebook.react.fabric.GuardedFrameCallback.doFrame(GuardedFrameCallback.kt:22)
at com.facebook.react.modules.core.ReactChoreographer.frameCallback$lambda$1(ReactChoreographer.kt:59)
at com.facebook.react.modules.core.ReactChoreographer.$r8$lambda$nSkFhrr5T7rop_XKwzlLov4NLLw(Unknown Source:0)
at com.facebook.react.modules.core.ReactChoreographer$$ExternalSyntheticLambda0.doFrame(D8$$SyntheticClass:0)
at android.view.Choreographer$CallbackRecord.run(Choreographer.java:1337)
at android.view.Choreographer$CallbackRecord.run(Choreographer.java:1348)
at android.view.Choreographer.doCallbacks(Choreographer.java:952)
at android.view.Choreographer.doFrame(Choreographer.java:878)
at android.view.Choreographer$FrameDisplayEventReceiver.run(Choreographer.java:1322)
at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:958)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
at android.os.Looper.loopOnce(Looper.java:205)
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:294)
at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:8176)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(RuntimeInit.java:552)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:971)