react-native build failed, 'native_modules.gradle' line: 182

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I init a new project using react native 0.61.2 , using react-native init proj command, after that when I try to react-native run-android, the build fails with this error :

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

  • Where:Script '..\node_modules@react-native-community\cli-platform-android\native_modules.gradle' line: 182

  • What went wrong: A problem occurred evaluating script. Unable to determine the current character, it is not a string, number, array, or object

    The current character read is 'D' with an int value of 68 Unable to determine the current character, it is not a string, number, array, or object line number 1 index number 0 as i mentioned, it's a fresh project. any idea how to fix this ?

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4 Answers

I ran into the same issue today and noticed that react recently released new versions to react-native and react.

I downgraded to versions i know work properly which are: 

"react": "~16.8.0",
"react-native": "~0.60.0"

cleared all cache and the project loads correctly.

in order to do so change the dependencies in your package.json file

then delete your node_modules directory, package.lock file and run npm cache clean

finally run npm i

perhaps there are still issues in the new releases.

user_14965360

I am aslo facing the same issue. Downgrading works, however i have two other projects that r working fine and they are react native 0.61.2

Only new projects are giving this error. I read in some blogs that removing react community cli from global and trying again might do the trick.

Will try that tomorrow and post my findings.

user_27207540

Look for mistakes in your AndroidManifest.xml!!!

For me, I solved this by replacing the character ” with " (And also read some people telling that unclosed tags did that too) As dumb as it looks, I got to this error from following a tutorial.

(tip: VS code would often show these quotes in different colors, unless you have installed another XML files extension)

user_51543710

I ran into the same issue in a fresh project with RN 0.64.0. The project was created inside a monorepo that was using Yarn workspaces. In my case, Yarn had moved or "hoisted" the @react-native-community/cli-platform-android/native_modules.gradle file to the root node_modules directory.

The Android project's settings.gradle and build.gradle files are expecting the @react-native-community/cli-platform-android/native_modules.gradle file to be in the RN project's node_modules directory and not the repo's root node_modules directory.

Try updating line 2 of settings.gradle to something like:

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

And line 222 of build.gradle to something like:

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

Obviously, you will need to adjust how many leading ../ you add to the path depending on how nested your project is.

You could also look into using the nohoist options available with Yarn to keep packages from moving around.

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