diff --git a/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/uimanager/NativeViewHierarchyManager.java b/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/uimanager/NativeViewHierarchyManager.java
index a57205b86..2b72a0a33 100644
--- a/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/uimanager/NativeViewHierarchyManager.java
+++ b/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/uimanager/NativeViewHierarchyManager.java
@@ -373,12 +373,13 @@ public class NativeViewHierarchyManager {
         if (mLayoutAnimationEnabled &&
             mLayoutAnimator.shouldAnimateLayout(viewToRemove) &&
             arrayContains(tagsToDelete, viewToRemove.getId())) {
-          // The view will be removed and dropped by the 'delete' layout animation
-          // instead, so do nothing
-        } else {
-          viewManager.removeViewAt(viewToManage, indexToRemove);
+          // Display the view in the parent after removal for the duration of the layout animation,
+          // but pretend that it doesn't exist when calling other ViewGroup methods.
+          viewManager.startViewTransition(viewToManage, viewToRemove);
         }
 
+        viewManager.removeViewAt(viewToManage, indexToRemove);
+
         lastIndexToRemove = indexToRemove;
       }
     }
@@ -423,7 +424,9 @@ public class NativeViewHierarchyManager {
           mLayoutAnimator.deleteView(viewToDestroy, new LayoutAnimationListener() {
             @Override
             public void onAnimationEnd() {
-              viewManager.removeView(viewToManage, viewToDestroy);
+              // Already removed from the ViewGroup, we can just end the transition here to
+              // release the child.
+              viewManager.endViewTransition(viewToManage, viewToDestroy);
               dropView(viewToDestroy);
             }
           });
diff --git a/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/uimanager/ViewGroupManager.java b/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/uimanager/ViewGroupManager.java
index 017fb5764..c4d5eed42 100644
--- a/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/uimanager/ViewGroupManager.java
+++ b/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/uimanager/ViewGroupManager.java
@@ -93,6 +93,14 @@ public abstract class ViewGroupManager <T extends ViewGroup>
     }
   }
 
+  public void startViewTransition(T parent, View view) {
+    parent.startViewTransition(view);
+  }
+
+  public void endViewTransition(T parent, View view) {
+    parent.endViewTransition(view);
+  }
+
   /**
    * Returns whether this View type needs to handle laying out its own children instead of
    * deferring to the standard css-layout algorithm.