React Native Navigation Android 8 Tabbed Application

When running a tabbed application on Android 8, the following error is thrown in com.reactnativenavigation.controllers.NavigationActivity:

Bad notification for startForeground: java.lang.RuntimeException: invalid channel for service notification: Notification(channel=null pri=-1 contentView=null vibrate=null sound=null defaults=0x0 flags=0x40 color=0x00000000 vis=PRIVATE)