Android .apk build is crashing

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What am I trying to do?

I've installed this dep in my app and its execution is working fine for both iOS and Android using react-native run ios or react-native run android. However, the .apk generation needed to either share the app or publish it to Play Store is having some intermittent issues.
Why am I saying intermittent? Because this returns a success once, then fails the second time, then you introduce a small change and it runs, then fails again, etc.

Steps to repdroduce

Run:

1. npm run android
2. cd android && ./gradlew clean && ./gradlew assembleRelease

App information

react-native info output:

System:
    OS: macOS 12.4
    CPU: (8) x64 Apple M1
    Memory: 586.59 MB / 16.00 GB
    Shell: 5.8.1 - /bin/zsh
  Binaries:
    Node: 16.15.1 - ~/.nvm/versions/node/v16.15.1/bin/node
    Yarn: Not Found
    npm: 8.11.0 - ~/.nvm/versions/node/v16.15.1/bin/npm
    Watchman: 2022.05.16.00 - /usr/local/bin/watchman
  Managers:
    CocoaPods: 1.11.3 - /usr/local/bin/pod
  SDKs:
    iOS SDK:
      Platforms: DriverKit 21.4, iOS 15.5, macOS 12.3, tvOS 15.4, watchOS 8.5
    Android SDK:
      API Levels: 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32
      Build Tools: 28.0.3, 29.0.2, 29.0.3, 30.0.0, 30.0.2, 31.0.0, 32.0.0
      System Images: android-29 | Intel x86 Atom_64, android-29 | Google APIs Intel x86 Atom, android-30 | Google Play Intel x86 Atom, android-31 | Google Play ARM 64 v8a, android-32 | Google APIs ARM 64 v8a, android-32 | Google Play ARM 64 v8a
      Android NDK: Not Found
  IDEs:
    Android Studio: 2020.3 AI-203.7717.56.2031.7935034
    Xcode: 13.4.1/13F100 - /usr/bin/xcodebuild
  Languages:
    Java: 1.8.0_292 - /usr/bin/javac
  npmPackages:
    @react-native-community/cli: Not Found
    react: ^17.0.2 => 17.0.2 
    react-native: 0.68.2 => 0.68.2 
    react-native-macos: Not Found
  npmGlobalPackages:
    *react-native*: Not Found

gradle -v output:

------------------------------------------------------------
Gradle 7.3.3
------------------------------------------------------------

Build time:   2021-12-22 12:37:54 UTC
Revision:     6f556c80f945dc54b50e0be633da6c62dbe8dc71

Kotlin:       1.5.31
Groovy:       3.0.9
Ant:          Apache Ant(TM) version 1.10.11 compiled on July 10 2021
JVM:          1.8.0_292 (AdoptOpenJDK 25.292-b10)
OS:           Mac OS X 10.16 x86_64

My package.json's dependencies:

"dependencies": {
    "@eva-design/eva": "^2.1.1",
    "@fortawesome/fontawesome-svg-core": "^6.1.1",
    "@fortawesome/free-brands-svg-icons": "^6.1.1",
    "@fortawesome/free-regular-svg-icons": "^6.1.1",
    "@fortawesome/free-solid-svg-icons": "^6.1.1",
    "@fortawesome/react-native-fontawesome": "^0.3.0",
    "@invertase/react-native-apple-authentication": "^2.2.2",
    "@oguzhnatly/react-native-image-manipulator": "^1.0.5",
    "@react-native-async-storage/async-storage": "^1.17.7",
    "@react-native-community/google-signin": "^5.0.0",
    "@react-native-firebase/app": "^15.1.0",
    "@react-native-firebase/auth": "^15.1.1",
    "@react-native-firebase/crashlytics": "^15.1.1",
    "@react-native-firebase/messaging": "^15.1.1",
    "@react-native-firebase/ml": "^15.1.0",
    "@react-navigation/bottom-tabs": "^6.3.2",
    "@react-navigation/material-top-tabs": "^6.2.2",
    "@react-navigation/native": "^6.0.10",
    "@react-navigation/native-stack": "^6.6.2",
    "@react-navigation/stack": "^6.2.1",
    "@ui-kitten/components": "^5.1.2",
    "axios": "^0.27.2",
    "chalk": "^5.0.1",
    "lottie-react-native": "^5.1.3",
    "moment": "^2.29.4",
    "react": "^17.0.2",
    "react-hook-form": "^6.5.3",
    "react-native": "0.68.2",
    "react-native-elements": "^3.4.2",
    "react-native-fast-image": "^8.5.11",
    "react-native-fbsdk": "^3.0.0",
    "react-native-gesture-handler": "^2.5.0",
    "react-native-image-crop-picker": "^0.38.0",
    "react-native-image-crop-tools": "^1.6.2",
    "react-native-image-picker": "^4.8.4",
    "react-native-material-menu": "^2.0.0",
    "react-native-mlkit-ocr": "^0.2.5",
    "react-native-modal": "^13.0.1",
    "react-native-onboarding-swiper": "^1.2.0",
    "react-native-pager-view": "^5.4.25",
    "react-native-pressable-opacity": "^1.0.10",
    "react-native-ratings": "^8.1.0",
    "react-native-reanimated": "^2.9.1",
    "react-native-safe-area-context": "^3.1.9",
    "react-native-screens": "^3.14.0",
    "react-native-share": "^7.6.6",
    "react-native-splash-screen": "^3.3.0",
    "react-native-star-rating": "^1.1.0",
    "react-native-svg": "^12.4.0",
    "react-native-tab-view": "^3.1.1",
    "react-native-vector-icons": "^9.2.0",
    "react-native-vision-camera": "^2.13.5",
    "react-navigation": "^4.4.4",
    "react-redux": "^8.0.2",
    "redux": "^4.2.0",
    "redux-devtools-extension": "^2.13.9",
    "redux-persist": "^6.0.0",
    "redux-saga": "^1.1.3",
    "redux-saga-retry": "^0.1.0",
    "reduxsauce": "^1.2.1",
    "socket.io-client": "^4.5.1"
  },
  "devDependencies": {
    "@babel/core": "^7.12.9",
    "@babel/runtime": "^7.12.5",
    "@react-native-community/eslint-config": "^2.0.0",
    "babel-jest": "^26.6.3",
    "eslint": "^7.32.0",
    "jest": "^26.6.3",
    "metro-react-native-babel-preset": "^0.67.0",
    "react-test-renderer": "17.0.2"
  },

I've followed the installation steps and managed to generate the apk a couple of times by adding import com.oguzhnatly.rnimagemanipulator.RNImageManipulatorPackage; to the top of android/app/src/main/java/[...]/MainApplication.java file, avoiding new RNImageManipulatorPackage() in the getPackages() method and avoiding compile project(':react-native-image-manipulator') in the android/app/build.gradle file too. All of this respondend to the need of avoid a list of compile errors.

This has been added to android/settings.gradle as instructed in the docs:

include ':react-native-image-manipulator'
project(':react-native-image-manipulator').projectDir = new File(rootProject.projectDir, 	'../node_modules/@oguzhnatly/react-native-image-manipulator/android')

Any ideas?