Is this a bug report?

Yes

Have you read the Contributing Guidelines?

Partly

Environment

Environment:
OS: Linux 4.4
Node: 8.9.4
Yarn: 1.3.2
npm: 5.6.0
Watchman: Not Found
Xcode: N/A
Android Studio: 3.0 AI-171.4443003

Packages: (wanted => installed)
react: 16.2.0 => 16.2.0
react-native: 0.52.0 => 0.52.0

Steps to Reproduce

1. Create a project following the Getting Started guide (Quick start tab)
2. Switch to the Building Projects with Native Code tab of the guide, and follow the steps there to create an Android Virtual Device
3. Start the Android Virtual Device
4. Run npm run android in the fresh project
5. Once the app has loaded in the Android emulator, press Ctrl+M to bring up the dev tools menu
6. Select "Debug JS Remotely"
7. In the Chrome browser that opens, open the web console Ctrl+Shift+I
8. Enable Pause on exceptions
9. Reload the Chrome page
10. Error will occur here

Expected Behavior

The debugger to not crash

Actual Behavior

The debugger crashed.

Stacktrace:

(index):94 Uncaught TypeError: Cannot set property 'volume' of null
    at Object.render ((index):94)
    at Object.setState ((index):48)
    at WebSocket.ws.onopen ((index):152)

Reproducible Demo

No project code changes are need to reproduce this. Just run

npx create-react-native-app TestProject

Note: npx is available if you have the at least npm@5.2.0 installed