Manually link the Android WebView into the example.

example/android/app/build.gradle

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ import com.android.build.OutputFile
  * cycle. By default, bundleDebugJsAndAssets is skipped, as in debug/dev mode we prefer to load the
  * bundle directly from the development server. Below you can see all the possible configurations
  * and their defaults. If you decide to add a configuration block, make sure to add it before the
- * `apply from: "../../../node_modules/react-native/react.gradle"` line.
+ * `apply from: "../../node_modules/react-native/react.gradle"` line.
  *
  * project.ext.react = [
  *   // the name of the generated asset file containing your JS bundle
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ import com.android.build.OutputFile
  *   //         'devDisabledIn${buildType}'
  *
  *   // the root of your project, i.e. where "package.json" lives
- *   root: "../../../",
+ *   root: "../../",
  *
  *   // where to put the JS bundle asset in debug mode
  *   jsBundleDirDebug: "$buildDir/intermediates/assets/debug",
@@ -76,7 +76,9 @@ import com.android.build.OutputFile
  */
 
 project.ext.react = [
-    entryFile: "index.js",
+    cliPath: "../../../node_modules/react-native/local-cli/cli.js",
+    entryFile: "./example/index.js",
+    root: "../../../",
     enableHermes: false,  // clean and rebuild if changing
 ]
 
@@ -179,6 +181,7 @@ android {
 }
 
 dependencies {
+    implementation project(':rnWebView')
     implementation fileTree(dir: "libs", include: ["*.jar"])
     implementation "com.facebook.react:react-native:+"  // From node_modules
 

example/android/app/src/main/java/com/example/MainApplication.java

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ import com.facebook.react.ReactApplication;
 import com.facebook.react.ReactNativeHost;
 import com.facebook.react.ReactPackage;
 import com.facebook.soloader.SoLoader;
+import com.reactnativecommunity.webview.RNCWebViewPackage;
 import java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException;
 import java.util.List;
 
@@ -25,6 +26,7 @@ public class MainApplication extends Application implements ReactApplication {
           List<ReactPackage> packages = new PackageList(this).getPackages();
           // Packages that cannot be autolinked yet can be added manually here, for example:
           // packages.add(new MyReactNativePackage());
+          packages.add(new RNCWebViewPackage());
           return packages;
         }
 

example/android/settings.gradle

@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
 rootProject.name = 'example'
 apply from: file("../../node_modules/@react-native-community/cli-platform-android/native_modules.gradle"); applyNativeModulesSettingsGradle(settings)
 include ':app'
+include ':rnWebView'
+project(':rnWebView').projectDir = new File(rootProject.projectDir, '../../android')