I was using RN 0.33 for this. Maybe in 0.42 something was changed. I think problem here can be because new RN started used themes for UI components, and my solution changes theme to set splash screen.
Here is some new component for this problem, try it https://github.com/react-native-component/react-native-smart-splash-screen
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