diff --git a/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/uimanager/BaseViewManager.java b/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/uimanager/BaseViewManager.java
index 964c614ed9a..692475ce297 100644
--- a/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/uimanager/BaseViewManager.java
+++ b/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/uimanager/BaseViewManager.java
@@ -305,14 +305,19 @@ public abstract class BaseViewManager<T extends View, C extends LayoutShadowNode
     TransformHelper.processTransform(transforms, sTransformDecompositionArray);
     MatrixMathHelper.decomposeMatrix(sTransformDecompositionArray, sMatrixDecompositionContext);
     view.setTranslationX(
-        PixelUtil.toPixelFromDIP((float) sMatrixDecompositionContext.translation[0]));
+        PixelUtil.toPixelFromDIP(
+            sanitizeFloatPropertyValue((float) sMatrixDecompositionContext.translation[0])));
     view.setTranslationY(
-        PixelUtil.toPixelFromDIP((float) sMatrixDecompositionContext.translation[1]));
-    view.setRotation((float) sMatrixDecompositionContext.rotationDegrees[2]);
-    view.setRotationX((float) sMatrixDecompositionContext.rotationDegrees[0]);
-    view.setRotationY((float) sMatrixDecompositionContext.rotationDegrees[1]);
-    view.setScaleX((float) sMatrixDecompositionContext.scale[0]);
-    view.setScaleY((float) sMatrixDecompositionContext.scale[1]);
+        PixelUtil.toPixelFromDIP(
+            sanitizeFloatPropertyValue((float) sMatrixDecompositionContext.translation[1])));
+    view.setRotation(
+        sanitizeFloatPropertyValue((float) sMatrixDecompositionContext.rotationDegrees[2]));
+    view.setRotationX(
+        sanitizeFloatPropertyValue((float) sMatrixDecompositionContext.rotationDegrees[0]));
+    view.setRotationY(
+        sanitizeFloatPropertyValue((float) sMatrixDecompositionContext.rotationDegrees[1]));
+    view.setScaleX(sanitizeFloatPropertyValue((float) sMatrixDecompositionContext.scale[0]));
+    view.setScaleY(sanitizeFloatPropertyValue((float) sMatrixDecompositionContext.scale[1]));
 
     double[] perspectiveArray = sMatrixDecompositionContext.perspective;
 
@@ -338,6 +343,29 @@ public abstract class BaseViewManager<T extends View, C extends LayoutShadowNode
     }
   }
 
+  /**
+   * Prior to Android P things like setScaleX() allowed passing float values that were bogus such as
+   * Float.NaN. If the app is targeting Android P or later then passing these values will result in
+   * an exception being thrown. Since JS might still send Float.NaN, we want to keep the code
+   * backward compatible and continue using the fallback value if an invalid float is passed.
+   */
+  private static float sanitizeFloatPropertyValue(float value) {
+    if (value >= -Float.MAX_VALUE && value <= Float.MAX_VALUE) {
+      return value;
+    }
+    if (value < -Float.MAX_VALUE || value == Float.NEGATIVE_INFINITY) {
+      return -Float.MAX_VALUE;
+    }
+    if (value > Float.MAX_VALUE || value == Float.POSITIVE_INFINITY) {
+      return Float.MAX_VALUE;
+    }
+    if (Float.isNaN(value)) {
+      return 0;
+    }
+    // Shouldn't be possible to reach this point.
+    throw new IllegalStateException("Invalid float property value: " + value);
+  }
+
   private static void resetTransformProperty(@NonNull View view) {
     view.setTranslationX(PixelUtil.toPixelFromDIP(0));
     view.setTranslationY(PixelUtil.toPixelFromDIP(0));