diff --git a/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/modules/network/OkHttpClientFactory.java b/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/modules/network/OkHttpClientFactory.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..9e417d00fdc7bf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/modules/network/OkHttpClientFactory.java
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+/**
+ * Copyright (c) 2015-present, Facebook, Inc.
+ * All rights reserved.
+ *
+ * This source code is licensed under the BSD-style license found in the
+ * LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree. An additional grant
+ * of patent rights can be found in the PATENTS file in the same directory.
+ */
+
+package com.facebook.react.modules.network;
+
+import okhttp3.OkHttpClient;
+
+public interface OkHttpClientFactory {
+    OkHttpClient createNewNetworkModuleClient();
+};
diff --git a/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/modules/network/OkHttpClientProvider.java b/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/modules/network/OkHttpClientProvider.java
index 5b82aa027a3fad..c90e908ad1c931 100644
--- a/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/modules/network/OkHttpClientProvider.java
+++ b/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/modules/network/OkHttpClientProvider.java
@@ -32,6 +32,13 @@ public class OkHttpClientProvider {
   // Centralized OkHttpClient for all networking requests.
   private static @Nullable OkHttpClient sClient;
 
+  // User-provided OkHttpClient factory
+  private static @Nullable OkHttpClientFactory sFactory;
+
+  public static void setOkHttpClientFactory(OkHttpClientFactory factory) {
+    sFactory = factory;
+  }
+
   public static OkHttpClient getOkHttpClient() {
     if (sClient == null) {
       sClient = createClient();
@@ -46,6 +53,10 @@ public static void replaceOkHttpClient(OkHttpClient client) {
   }
 
   public static OkHttpClient createClient() {
+    if (sFactory != null) {
+      return sFactory.createNewNetworkModuleClient();
+    }
+
     // No timeouts by default
     OkHttpClient.Builder client = new OkHttpClient.Builder()
       .connectTimeout(0, TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS)