Getting Error while building React Native project

Question

I am getting following error

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* Where:
Settings file 'G:\ReactNative\Contacts\android\settings.gradle' line: 3

    * What went wrong:
    Could not compile settings file 'G:\ReactNative\Contacts\android\settings.gradle'.
    > startup failed:
      settings file 'G:\ReactNative\Contacts\android\settings.gradle': 3: unexpected char: '\' @ line 3, column 133.
         s\react-native-gesture-handler\android')

settings.gradle

rootProject.name = 'Contacts'
include ':react-native-gesture-handler'
project(':react-native-gesture-handler').projectDir = new File(rootProject.projectDir, '..\node_modules\react-native-gesture-handler\android')
include ':react-native-vector-icons'
project(':react-native-vector-icons').projectDir = new File(rootProject.projectDir, '..\node_modules\react-native-vector-icons\android')

include ':app'

What is actually wrong with this file?

Answer 1

Try forward slashes / instead of backslash \

use code

rootProject.name = 'Contacts'
include ':react-native-gesture-handler'
project(':react-native-gesture-handler').projectDir = new File(rootProject.projectDir, '../node_modules/react-native-gesture-handler/android')
include ':react-native-vector-icons'
project(':react-native-vector-icons').projectDir = new File(rootProject.projectDir, '../node_modules/react-native-vector-icons/android')

include ':app'

instead of

rootProject.name = 'Contacts'
include ':react-native-gesture-handler'
project(':react-native-gesture-handler').projectDir = new File(rootProject.projectDir, '..\node_modules\react-native-gesture-handler\android')
include ':react-native-vector-icons'
project(':react-native-vector-icons').projectDir = new File(rootProject.projectDir, '..\node_modules\react-native-vector-icons\android')

include ':app'

Hope it will help