diff --git a/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/api/ReactAndroid.api b/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/api/ReactAndroid.api
index 4e8b9a8fe19..063cc9e4bf2 100644
--- a/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/api/ReactAndroid.api
+++ b/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/api/ReactAndroid.api
@@ -4055,7 +4055,7 @@ public abstract interface class com/facebook/react/uimanager/IViewManagerWithChi
 public class com/facebook/react/uimanager/IllegalViewOperationException : com/facebook/react/bridge/JSApplicationCausedNativeException {
 	public fun <init> (Ljava/lang/String;)V
 	public fun <init> (Ljava/lang/String;Landroid/view/View;Ljava/lang/Throwable;)V
-	public fun getView ()Landroid/view/View;
+	public final fun getView ()Landroid/view/View;
 }
 
 public class com/facebook/react/uimanager/JSPointerDispatcher {
diff --git a/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/uimanager/IllegalViewOperationException.java b/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/uimanager/IllegalViewOperationException.java
deleted file mode 100644
index 215293188ea..00000000000
--- a/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/uimanager/IllegalViewOperationException.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,34 +0,0 @@
-/*
- * Copyright (c) Meta Platforms, Inc. and affiliates.
- *
- * This source code is licensed under the MIT license found in the
- * LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
- */
-
-package com.facebook.react.uimanager;
-
-import android.view.View;
-import androidx.annotation.Nullable;
-import com.facebook.infer.annotation.Nullsafe;
-import com.facebook.react.bridge.JSApplicationCausedNativeException;
-
-/** An exception caused by JS requesting the UI manager to perform an illegal view operation. */
-@Nullsafe(Nullsafe.Mode.LOCAL)
-public class IllegalViewOperationException extends JSApplicationCausedNativeException {
-
-  @Nullable private View mView;
-
-  public IllegalViewOperationException(String msg) {
-    super(msg);
-  }
-
-  public IllegalViewOperationException(String msg, @Nullable View view, Throwable cause) {
-    super(msg, cause);
-    mView = view;
-  }
-
-  @Nullable
-  public View getView() {
-    return mView;
-  }
-}
diff --git a/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/uimanager/IllegalViewOperationException.kt b/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/uimanager/IllegalViewOperationException.kt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..c03768f9890
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/uimanager/IllegalViewOperationException.kt
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright (c) Meta Platforms, Inc. and affiliates.
+ *
+ * This source code is licensed under the MIT license found in the
+ * LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
+ */
+
+package com.facebook.react.uimanager
+
+import android.view.View
+import com.facebook.react.bridge.JSApplicationCausedNativeException
+
+/** An exception caused by JS requesting the UI manager to perform an illegal view operation. */
+public open class IllegalViewOperationException : JSApplicationCausedNativeException {
+  private var view: View? = null
+
+  public constructor(msg: String) : super(msg)
+
+  public constructor(msg: String, view: View?, cause: Throwable) : super(msg, cause) {
+    this.view = view
+  }
+
+  public fun getView(): View? = view
+}