Recommendations feature does not persist after player is closed

[hunyoboy]

Describe the bug
Noticed an android-only issue that recommendations is only enabled the first time the player is opened. Once player is closed and reopened, recommendations is interestingly disabled. In fact, even if you open another player configured to display recommendations, no recommendations on any players will show up anymore. It'll only be enabled again if you close and reopen the whole app.

To Reproduce
Use the Example application as reference material and a starting place to reproduce any bugs.

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Download the rn jwplayer source code here - https://github.com/jwplayer/jwplayer-react-native
2. Replace the content of the Example app file with this gist's content - https://gist.github.com/hunyoboy/fede5a73c9c498e0d3d6f844eb16439a. Ensure to also replace with real values here - https://gist.github.com/hunyoboy/fede5a73c9c498e0d3d6f844eb16439a#file-singleexample-js-L23
3. Run the Example app. Make sure to reference the latest version. v1.0.3 at the time of this ticket creation.
4. Once the app is up and running, go to Single Example section and observe the bug.
5. Reference the video below.

Expected behavior

1. Recommendations should be enabled if player is configured for it.
2. Player configured for recommendations should remain recommendations-enabled even if it's closed and reopened.

Screenshots / Visual evidence

recommendation-bug.mp4

Desktop (please complete the following information):
No build issue.

Additional context
We use Jwplayer recommendations heavily on both ios/android.

JWP Ticketing
https://support.jwplayer.com/hc/en-us/requests/226877

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[Jmilham21]

This is a weird one, taking a look @hunyoboy.

[Jmilham21]

I have determined this to be an issue on the native SDK side. I will make an internal ticket and bring the patch over as soon as I can release a version with the fix.