Cli: ERROR: Failed to parse React Native CLI configuration.

[WeTruck]

Hello,

I'm getting this error while 'sync project through Gradle files' from Android Studio.

ERROR: Failed to parse React Native CLI configuration. Expected running 'npx.cmd --quiet --no-install react-native config' command from '..\AwesomeProject' directory to output valid JSON, but it didn't. This may be caused by npx resolving to a legacy global react-native binary. Please make sure to uninstall any global 'react-native' binaries: 'npm uninstall -g react-native react-native-cli' and try again

I did this which in the message,
npm uninstall -g react-native react-native-cli

But it's still showing the error.

I want to mention, it's the first sync of the project. It's just installed with this
npx react-native init AwesomeProject

Nothing did else.

Is there any solution?

Thanks in advance

[andremadureira1993]

Hi @WeTruck
I had run into the same issue, could you please share the full log?

Btw, in my case, what went wrong was JAVA_HOME that was set with Java instead of JDK package. Take a shot.

[fgagneten]

Same issue here. Any solution?

[fgagneten]

I found a solution! Please see my answer at Stackoverflow:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/59507720/6421759

[GoldenMaximo]

I tried basically every solution I could find on GH and SO to no avail.
What worked for me:

• Delete every untracked folder/file inside of ./android
• Run react-native start
• Kill the process
• cd android
• gradlew clean
• Run react-native run-android

[croson]

I found a solution! Please see my answer at Stackoverflow:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/59507720/6421759

It still doesn't work.

[tusharsinghal1610]

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 me.

[Deathblade6]

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 me.

Worked for me too.

[grabbou]

@fgagneten solution is a hack because it disables the CLI entirely. If you are having issues, please package your entire application into a zip and email it to me to "[email protected]". I do really want to resolve this issue, but I am having a hard time reproducing it.

[grabbou]

We are going to ship a quick update that will replace this error message with a real, underlying error. That will help debugging and eliminate hundreds of same issues that are all different.

[grabbou]

Duplicate of #863 that has confirmed workaround.

[khaledBou]

make sure that there's no syntax error in AndroidManifest.xml for me i make a copy past and i forget to close attribute with " "

[totalamd]

I found a solution! Please see my answer at Stackoverflow:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/59507720/6421759

It's not right to like your own comment as it was someone else approved it.

[Chimaa123]

For me, AndroidManifest.xml file was automatically generated in /andoird/app/release/ folder. After removing this, application compiled successfully.

[Anujmoglix]

AndroidManifest.xml

Not worked for me