cli: @react-native-community/cli-platform-android Build Failed: The current character read is 'i' with an int value of 105

I was building, running and demoing my app at 11:30am this morning using npx react-native run-android, I made a PR and merged my branch into Dev an hour later. The build failed with the error below. I thought this was odd so in my local I deleted node_modules and package-lock.json, ran cd android && ./gradlew clean, then cd… and npx react-native run-android. My local started producing this same error. I have no idea what could have changed or what would have caused this.

I have been googling and trying different solutions with no success and a deadline looming. Can anybody help guide me to a solution please? TIA!

Environment

react-native info

System:
    OS: Windows 10 10.0.22621
    CPU: (8) x64 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-1185G7 @ 3.00GHz
    Memory: 10.99 GB / 31.85 GB
  Binaries:
    Node: 16.18.0 - C:\Program Files\nodejs\node.EXE
    Yarn: 1.22.19 - ~\AppData\Roaming\npm\yarn.CMD
    npm: 8.19.2 - C:\Program Files\nodejs\npm.CMD
    Watchman: Not Found
  SDKs:
    Android SDK: Not Found
    Windows SDK: Not Found
  IDEs:
    Android Studio: Not Found
    Visual Studio: 17.5.33627.172 (Visual Studio Enterprise 2022)
  Languages:
    Java: 11.0.16.1
  npmPackages:
    @react-native-community/cli: Not Found
    react: 18.1.0 => 18.1.0
    react-native: 0.70.7 => 0.70.7
    react-native-windows: Not Found
  npmGlobalPackages:
    *react-native*: Not Found

**react-native --version**

react-native-cli: 2.0.1
react-native: 0.70.7

Description

npx react-native run-android


warn Package react-native-sqlite-storage contains invalid configuration: "dependency.platforms.ios.project" is not allowed. Please verify it's properly linked using "react-native config" command and contact the package maintainers about this.
info Starting JS server...
info Launching emulator...
info Successfully launched emulator.
info Installing the app...

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* Where:
Script 'C:\Users\Public\xyz\node_modules\@react-native-community\cli-platform-android\native_modules.gradle' line: 450

* What went wrong:
A problem occurred evaluating script.
> Calling `[node, C:\Users\Public\xyz\node_modules\@react-native-community\cli\build\bin.js, config]` finished with an exception. Error message: groovy.json.JsonException: Unable to determine the current character, it is not a string, number, array, or object

 The current character read is 'i' with an int value of 105
 Unable to determine the current character, it is not a string, number, array, or object
 line number 1
 index number 0
 info Run CLI with --verbose flag for more details.
 ^. Output: info Run CLI with --verbose flag for more details.

* Try:
> Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace.
> Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output.
> Run with --scan to get full insights.

* Get more help at https://help.gradle.org

BUILD FAILED in 7s

error Failed to install the app. Make sure you have the Android development environment set up: https://reactnative.dev/docs/environment-setup.
Error: Command failed: gradlew.bat app:installDebug -PreactNativeDevServerPort=8081

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* Where:
Script 'C:\Users\Public\xyz\node_modules\@react-native-community\cli-platform-android\native_modules.gradle' line: 450

* What went wrong:
A problem occurred evaluating script.
> Calling `[node, C:\Users\Public\xyz\node_modules\@react-native-community\cli\build\bin.js, config]` finished with an exception. Error message: groovy.json.JsonException: Unable to determine the current character, it is not a string, number, array, or object

 The current character read is 'i' with an int value of 105
 Unable to determine the current character, it is not a string, number, array, or object
 line number 1
 index number 0
 info Run CLI with --verbose flag for more details.
 ^. Output: info Run CLI with --verbose flag for more details.

* Try:
> Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace.
> Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output.
> Run with --scan to get full insights.

* Get more help at https://help.gradle.org

BUILD FAILED in 7s

   at makeError (C:\Users\Public\xyz\node_modules\@react-native-community\cli-platform-android\node_modules\execa\index.js:174:9)
   at C:\Users\Public\xyz\node_modules\@react-native-community\cli-platform-android\node_modules\execa\index.js:278:16
   at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:96:5)
   at async runOnAllDevices (C:\Users\Public\xyz\node_modules\@react-native-community\cli-platform-android\build\commands\runAndroid\runOnAllDevices.js:109:5)
   at async Command.handleAction (C:\Users\Public\xyz\node_modules\@react-native-community\cli\build\index.js:142:9)
info Run CLI with --verbose flag for more details.

About this issue

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State: closed
Created a year ago
Reactions: 8
Comments: 32 (2 by maintainers)

Most upvoted comments

For me it was caused by react-native-image-picker. Updating it fixed it

jeroenvanhattem on Sep 22, 2023

Im also facing the same issue… is there any fix yet for this ? Thanks

jlora-mck on Jun 27, 2023

I am also facing this issue with no solution

ttshivhula on Jun 22, 2023

@nhokmoon , did you fix the issue? i’ve been stuck for days now.

iamblackdev on Apr 25, 2024

npx react-native run-android --variant=devDebug info Running jetifier to migrate libraries to AndroidX. You can disable it using “–no-jetifier” flag. Jetifier found 2993 file(s) to forward-jetify. Using 8 workers… info Starting JS server… info Launching emulator… error Failed to launch emulator. Reason: Emulator exited before boot… warn Please launch an emulator manually or connect a device. Otherwise app may fail to launch. info Installing the app… :ReactNative:Running ‘[node, -e, try {console.log(require(’@react-native-community/cli’).bin);} catch (e) {console.log(require(‘react-native/cli’).bin);}]’ command failed.

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

Where: Script ‘C:\Users\nhung\Desktop\soba\src\Soba-MobileApp\node_modules@react-native-community\cli-platform-android\native_modules.gradle’ line: 397
What went wrong: A problem occurred evaluating script.

Could not find method exec() for arguments [ReactNativeModules$_getCommandOutput_closure16@2eaa5049] on object of type org.gradle.api.internal.provider.DefaultProviderFactory_Decorated.

Try:

Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output. Run with --scan to get full insights.

Get more help at https://help.gradle.org

BUILD FAILED in 2s

error Failed to install the app. Make sure you have the Android development environment set up: https://reactnative.dev/docs/environment-setup. Error: Command failed: gradlew.bat app:installDevDebug -PreactNativeDevServerPort=8081 :ReactNative:Running ‘[node, -e, try {console.log(require(’@react-native-community/cli’).bin);} catch (e) {console.log(require(‘react-native/cli’).bin);}]’ command failed.

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

Where: Script ‘C:\Users\nhung\Desktop\soba\src\Soba-MobileApp\node_modules@react-native-community\cli-platform-android\native_modules.gradle’ line: 397
What went wrong: A problem occurred evaluating script.

Could not find method exec() for arguments [ReactNativeModules$_getCommandOutput_closure16@2eaa5049] on object of type org.gradle.api.internal.provider.DefaultProviderFactory_Decorated.

Try:

Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output. Run with --scan to get full insights.

Get more help at https://help.gradle.org

BUILD FAILED in 2s

at makeError (C:\Users\nhung\Desktop\soba\src\Soba-MobileApp\node_modules\.pnpm\execa@1.0.0\node_modules\execa\index.js:174:9)       
at C:\Users\nhung\Desktop\soba\src\Soba-MobileApp\node_modules\.pnpm\execa@1.0.0\node_modules\execa\index.js:278:16
at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:96:5)
at async runOnAllDevices (C:\Users\nhung\Desktop\soba\src\Soba-MobileApp\node_modules\.pnpm\@react-native-community+cli-platform-android@7.0.1\node_modules\@react-native-community\cli-platform-android\build\commands\runAndroid\runOnAllDevices.js:109:5)
at async Command.handleAction (C:\Users\nhung\Desktop\soba\src\Soba-MobileApp\node_modules\.pnpm\@react-native-community+cli@7.0.4_@babel+core@7.24.4_react-native@0.68.7\node_modules\@react-native-community\cli\build\index.js:192:9)

info Run CLI with --verbose flag for more details.

C:\Users\nhung\Desktop\soba\src\Soba-MobileApp>./gradlew clean ‘.’ is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

C:\Users\nhung\Desktop\soba\src\Soba-MobileApp>cd android

C:\Users\nhung\Desktop\soba\src\Soba-MobileApp\android>./gradlew clean ‘.’ is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

C:\Users\nhung\Desktop\soba\src\Soba-MobileApp\android>gradlew clean
Starting a Gradle Daemon, 2 incompatible Daemons could not be reused, use --status for details :ReactNative:Running ‘[node, -e, try {console.log(require(’@react-native-community/cli’).bin);} catch (e) {console.log(require(‘react-native/cli’).bin);}]’ command failed.

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

Where: Script ‘C:\Users\nhung\Desktop\soba\src\Soba-MobileApp\node_modules@react-native-community\cli-platform-android\native_modules.gradle’ line: 397
What went wrong: A problem occurred evaluating script.

Could not find method exec() for arguments [ReactNativeModules$_getCommandOutput_closure16@f6e6863] on object of type org.gradle.api.internal.provider.DefaultProviderFactory_Decorated.

Try: Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output. Run with --scan to get full insights.
Get more help at https://help.gradle.org

BUILD FAILED in 5s how to fix this i’m stuck for 2 day

nhokmoon on Apr 17, 2024

1.rm -fr node_modules 2.yarn install 3.yarn react-native run-android

zhukai1204 on Sep 27, 2023

You shouldn’t have react-native-cli in your in package.json

@szymonrybczak something to add to #1983 ?

cortinico on Jul 20, 2023

Hello 👋 This is probably not issue related to React Native CLI - but related to libraries, please try upgrading (such as react-native-image-picker or react-native-cameraroll or any other) - probably in these libraries were introduced breaking change that breaks your app. Please also try creating fresh React Native app with npx react-native@latest init command and say is it working for you correctly.

szymonrybczak on Jul 7, 2023

When did this error start for you? I’ve tried rolling back to previous commits and re-cloning to an earlier version of the app I’m still facing the same error.

Could you talk me through you clean install process please?

ablack34 on Jun 22, 2023

i’m experiencing the same issue since upgrading a dependency. I’ve also tried a clean install, downgrading the dependencies, further upgrading them but i can’t the app running. (Can also confirm this on various apps)

Ritorna on Jun 22, 2023