I have updated React Native to 0.60-RC2, migrated to AndroidX using the Android Studio refractor and used the jetifier mentioned here: https://github.com/react-native-community/
What solved for me was change build.gradle updating packagingOptions
to:
packagingOptions {
pickFirst 'lib/x86/libc++_shared.so'
pickFirst 'lib/x86/libjsc.so'
pickFirst 'lib/x86_64/libjsc.so'
pickFirst 'lib/arm64-v8a/libjsc.so'
pickFirst 'lib/arm64-v8a/libc++_shared.so'
pickFirst 'lib/x86_64/libc++_shared.so'
pickFirst 'lib/armeabi-v7a/libc++_shared.so'
pickFirst 'lib/armeabi-v7a/libjsc.so'
}