React-native app is being restarted on every navigation when integrated with native app

We're trying to integrate a new React Native app to an existing native Android app. Following the RN official docs we managed to get it working but with some issues regarding the navigation.

We've native and non-native (JS) screens, and we need a good way to navigate between all screens regardless if a screen is native or not.

We tried to adopt native-navigation and react-native-navigation to see if any address our issue but none of them actually worked.

Currently, we have registered all our RN screens like this:

const provide = (store, Screen) => {
      return props => (
        <Provider store={store}>
          <Screen {...props} />
        </Provider>
      );
    };

    const store = configureStore();

    AppRegistry.registerComponent('Home', () => provide(store, HomeComponent));

We also created a Native Module we call "Navigator" that has navigation method called openComponent that accepts screen name and its props. Here is how the implementation of openComponent looks:

// our native module code ...
     @ReactMethod
     public void openComponent(String name, String extra) {

         try {
             Intent intent = new Intent(this.getReactApplicationContext(), MyReactActivity.class);
             intent.putExtra("moduleName", name);
             intent.putExtra("extra", extra);

             getCurrentActivity().startActivityForResult(intent, 0);
         }
         catch (Exception e) {
             e.printStackTrace();
             Crashlytics.logException(e.getCause());
         }
     }

Then whenever we want to navigate on the RN side we simply call our custom navigator with the target screen props.

The problem with the current approach is that the RN part is being restarted whenever we navigate to RN-based screens which causes the Redux store to be empty.

Here how our "onCreate" method looks like for our ReactActivity.java class:

@Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

        Bundle initialProperties = new Bundle();
        initialProperties.putString("loginToken", HJSession.getSession().getSessionId());
        initialProperties.putString("username", HJSession.getSession().getUserName());
        initialProperties.putString("userId", HJSession.getSession().getUserId().toString());

        String moduleName = "topics";
        Bundle bundle = getIntent().getExtras();

        if (bundle != null) {
            moduleName = bundle.getString("moduleName");
            try {
                String extra = bundle.getString("extra");
                initialProperties.putString("extra", extra);
            }
            catch (Exception e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
                Crashlytics.logException(e.getCause());
            }
        }

        mReactRootView = new ReactRootView(this);
        mReactInstanceManager = ReactInstanceManager.builder()
                .setApplication(getApplication())
                .setJSMainModulePath("index")
                .addPackages(Arrays.<ReactPackage>asList(
                        new MainReactPackage(),
                        new RNFirebasePackage(),
                        new RNFirebaseMessagingPackage(),
                        new RNFirebaseNotificationsPackage(),
                        new RNI18nPackage(),
                        new VectorIconsPackage(),
                        new HJRNPackages(),
                        new NativeNavigationPackage()
                ))
                .setUseDeveloperSupport(BuildConfig.DEBUG)
                .setInitialLifecycleState(LifecycleState.RESUMED)
                .build();

        mReactRootView.startReactApplication(mReactInstanceManager, moduleName, initialProperties);

        setContentView(mReactRootView);
    }

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