Error prebuild react-native, build.gradle

When you first start the application, this error appears. I don't understand what it can be connected with.

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* Where:
Build file 'C:\xxxx\android\app\build.gradle' line: 1

* What went wrong:
A problem occurred evaluating project ':app'.
> Failed to apply plugin [id 'com.android.application']
   > Malformed \uxxxx encoding.