diff --git a/packages/exampleReactNative/android/app/build.gradle b/packages/exampleReactNative/android/app/build.gradle
index 9a239fd1..953f218a 100755
--- a/packages/exampleReactNative/android/app/build.gradle
+++ b/packages/exampleReactNative/android/app/build.gradle
@@ -77,6 +77,7 @@ import com.android.build.OutputFile
 
 project.ext.react = [
     entryFile: "index.js",
+    nodeExecutableAndArgs : ["node","--max_old_space_size=8192"],
     enableHermes: false,  // clean and rebuild if changing
 ]
 
diff --git a/packages/exampleReactNative/ios/exampleReactNative.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj b/packages/exampleReactNative/ios/exampleReactNative.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj
index d54d2f91..1453a378 100644
--- a/packages/exampleReactNative/ios/exampleReactNative.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj
+++ b/packages/exampleReactNative/ios/exampleReactNative.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj
@@ -161,7 +161,6 @@
 				7DE1F6B3025518D718441D67 /* Pods-exampleReactNativeTests.debug.xcconfig */,
 				FD82CB3C48B719DCC61D04D7 /* Pods-exampleReactNativeTests.release.xcconfig */,
 			);
-			name = Pods;
 			path = Pods;
 			sourceTree = "<group>";
 		};
@@ -308,6 +307,7 @@
 			developmentRegion = English;
 			hasScannedForEncodings = 0;
 			knownRegions = (
+				English,
 				en,
 				Base,
 			);
@@ -371,7 +371,7 @@
 			);
 			runOnlyForDeploymentPostprocessing = 0;
 			shellPath = /bin/sh;
-			shellScript = "export NODE_BINARY=node\n../node_modules/react-native/scripts/react-native-xcode.sh";
+			shellScript = "export NODE_BINARY=node\nexport NODE_ARGS=--max_old_space_size=8192\n../node_modules/react-native/scripts/react-native-xcode.sh\n";
 		};
 		1F39ED716AE6354C4F187983 /* [CP] Check Pods Manifest.lock */ = {
 			isa = PBXShellScriptBuildPhase;
diff --git a/packages/exampleReactNative/nodeGlobalsShim.js b/packages/exampleReactNative/nodeGlobalsShim.js
index aba329ce..5e718e07 100644
--- a/packages/exampleReactNative/nodeGlobalsShim.js
+++ b/packages/exampleReactNative/nodeGlobalsShim.js
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 // This software may be modified and distributed under the terms
 // of the Apache-2.0 license. See the LICENSE file for details.
 /* eslint-disable no-global-assign */
-
+import 'fast-text-encoding';
 import AsyncStorage from '@react-native-community/async-storage';
 
 class Storage {
diff --git a/packages/exampleReactNative/package.json b/packages/exampleReactNative/package.json
index 50b45492..1b7845d8 100644
--- a/packages/exampleReactNative/package.json
+++ b/packages/exampleReactNative/package.json
@@ -34,7 +34,8 @@
     "react-native": "^0.61.4",
     "react-native-crypto": "^2.2.0",
     "react-native-randombytes": "^3.5.3",
-    "stream-http": "^3.1.0"
+    "stream-http": "^3.1.0",
+    "fast-text-encoding": "^1.0.0"
   },
   "devDependencies": {
     "@babel/core": "^7.7.7",