I am facing this error while building a React Native APK. What went wrong: Execution failed for task 'appconfigureCMakeRelWithDebInfo[x86]'.

com.google.gson.stream.MalformedJsonException: Use JsonReader.setLenient(true) to accept malformed JSON at line 1 column 1 path $

Well, somewhere something is trying to read an invalid json file. More cannot be deducted from your minimal error excerpt, besides that it must likely is not a Gradle issue. Please provide the full error, optimally as build

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