Error: Unable to determine the current character, it is not a string, number, array, or object in react-native for android

SOLUTION 1 (worked for me)

The solution for me was removing the following line

apply from: file("../../node_modules/@react-native-community/cli-platform-android/native_modules.gradle"); applyNativeModulesAppBuildGradle(project)

Be sure to remove it everywhere. I had this line in build.gradle (app) and also in settings.gradle.

After that, run again npx react-native run-android the console will display the real error, fix the error and put back the lines you had removed.

In my case the error happened because I have been using an older Node version and the second time It happened I needed to sync my project again

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SOLUTION 2

Delete the files it was finding error as "The current character read is 'E' with an int value of 69"

Deleting

app\build\intermediates\signing_config\debug\out\signing-config.json

worked for others too.

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SOLUTION 3

Update the @react-native-community/cli to the latest version.

Good coding!

I think this problem is only in the newer version (0.61) I had the same issue and I just used the older version (0.60.0)

 npx react-native init AwesomeProject --version 0.60.0

Just removed the build folder inside android and go to android folder and then in powershell typed ./gradlew clean and then cd.. => npx react-native run-android