title: react native build error: Unable to determine the current character, it is not a string, number, array, or object
body: <p>This is the error I got:</p>
  
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  <pre class="snippet-code-js lang-js prettyprint-override"><code>FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.
  
  * Where:
  Script 'D:\Mobile Projects\XXX\XXX\XXX\node_modules\@react-native-community\cli-platform-android\native_modules.gradle' line: 191
  
  * What went wrong:
  A problem occurred evaluating settings 'XXX'.
  &gt; Unable to determine the current character, it is not a string, number, array, or object
  
    The current character read is 'E' with an int value of 69
    Unable to determine the current character, it is not a string, number, array, or object
    line number 1
    index number 0
    Error: Attribute without valueLine: 26Column: 41Char: i    
  at error (D:\Mobile Projects\XXX\XXX\XXX\node_modules\sax\lib\sax.js:651:10)    
  at strictFail (D:\Mobile Projects\XXX\XXX\XXX\node_modules\sax\lib\sax.js:677:7)    
  at SAXParser.write (D:\Mobile Projects\XXX\XXX\XXX\node_modules\sax\lib\sax.js:1340:13)    
  at new XmlDocument (D:\Mobile Projects\XXX\XXX\XXX\node_modules\xmldoc\lib\xmldoc.js:261:15)
  at readManifest (D:\Mobile Projects\XXX\XXX\XXX\node_modules\@react-native-community\cli-platform-android\build\config\readManifest.js:38:10)
  at Object.projectConfig (D:\Mobile Projects\XXX\XXX\XXX\node_modules\@react-native-community\cli-platform-android\build\config\index.js:59:46)    
  at Object.get project [as project] (D:\Mobile Projects\XXX\XXX\XXX\node_modules\react-native\node_modules\@react-native-community\cli\build\tools\config\index.js:134:65)    
  at D:\Mobile Projects\XXX\XXX\XXX\node_modules\react-native\node_modules\@react-native-community\cli\build\commands\config\config.js:8:452
  at Array.forEach (&lt;anonymous&gt;)
  at _objectSpread (D:\Mobile Projects\XXX\XXX\XXX\node_modules\react-native\node_modules\@react-native-community\cli\build\commands\config\config.js:8:392)</code></pre>
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  <p>Here is package.json:</p>
  
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    "name": "XXX",
    "version": "0.0.1",
    "private": true,
    "scripts": {
      "start": "react-native start",
      "postinstall": "patch-package",
      "test": "jest",
      "lint": "eslint ."
    },
    "dependencies": {
      "@react-native-community/async-storage": "^1.6.1",
      "@react-native-community/cli-platform-android": "^2.9.0",
      "@react-native-community/netinfo": "^4.1.5",
      "native-base": "^2.13.5",
      "patch-package": "^6.1.2",
      "react": "^16.9.0",
      "react-native": "^0.60.5",
      "react-native-deep-linking": "^2.2.0",
      "react-native-image-gallery": "^2.1.5",
      "react-native-image-picker": "^1.0.1",
      "react-native-loading-spinner-overlay": "^1.0.1",
      "react-native-modal-filter-picker": "^1.3.4",
      "react-native-popup-dialog": "^0.18.3",
      "react-native-spinner-button": "^1.0.3",
      "react-native-swiper": "^1.5.14",
      "react-navigation": "^3.11.1",
      "react-scripts": "^3.1.1",
      "set-cookie-parser": "^2.3.8"
    },
    "devDependencies": {
      "@babel/core": "^7.5.5",
      "@babel/runtime": "^7.5.5",
      "@react-native-community/eslint-config": "^0.0.5",
      "babel-jest": "^24.8.0",
      "babel-plugin-transform-remove-console": "^6.9.4",
      "eslint": "^6.1.0",
      "jest": "^24.8.0",
      "metro-react-native-babel-preset": "^0.56.0",
      "react-native-gesture-handler": "1.0.16",
      "react-test-renderer": "16.8.6"
    },
    "jest": {
      "preset": "react-native"
    }
  }</code></pre>
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  <p>This project was able to be built a couple of days ago. However, without any changes, I face the aforementioned error. </p>
  
  <p>I googled and found the following pages:</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/24733" rel="noreferrer">react-native run-android: daemon startup failed</a></p>
  
  <p><a href="https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/25936" rel="noreferrer">can't compile and run my react native app</a></p>
  
  <p>I did tried both of them, but none of them worked.</p>
  
  <p>Any Ideas??????</p>