Cordova phongap build fails connot find symbol webview

Question

I have exception in cordova whenever i do build debug or release to generate apk

Its running on my browser and phone gap application from phone gap getting started

I tried lot of downgrading and upgrading for cordova Plus I tried lot of SDKs and build tools versions. plus I tried install un install different versions of cordova and npm

I got many different errors when i try thing for example Error 1 Error 2

My project is kinda old its created 4 years ago . but the last time i created apk was months ago, i know the problem is because i clicked update in intellij for android repository but cant remember what it was then

Here is the Exception , i dont have the full stack because i already solved it and posting answer here. (i dont want to break things again)

When i run this

cordova build android --debug

I get cannot find symbol at the .plugin the letter p

new CordovaResourceApi(webView.getContext(), webView.pluginManager)

Am posting the answer here , because i solved this twice , and yet i spent two days debugging ! again to solve again.

P.S

Here is reference for what i tried on stackoverflow as well, from what i get in the output console

Trust me this will save you lot of googling.

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Answer 1

In My case i had the following: and i have below what my android manager looked like ( FYI i had to down grade to adapt legacy phone gap that was created long ago !)

C:\work\sajilni_mobile\android>cordova --version 4.0.0

C:\work\sajilni_mobile\android>npm --version 3.10.10

C:\work\sajilni_mobile\android>cordova platform list Installed platforms: android 3.6.4, browser 4.1.0 Available platforms: amazon-fireos, blackberry10, firefoxos, windows, windows8, wp8.

===>>> And here is my plugins that is working with that.

cordova plugin ls
com.phonegap.plugins.barcodescanner 2.0.1 "BarcodeScanner"
cordova-plugin-media 2.4.0 "Media"
org.apache.cordova.battery-status 0.2.12 "Battery"
org.apache.cordova.camera 0.3.5 "Camera"
org.apache.cordova.console 0.2.13 "Console"
org.apache.cordova.device 0.3.0 "Device"
org.apache.cordova.device-motion 0.2.11 "Device Motion"
org.apache.cordova.device-orientation 0.3.11 "Device Orientation"
org.apache.cordova.dialogs 0.3.0 "Notification"
org.apache.cordova.file 1.1.0 "File"
org.apache.cordova.geolocation 0.3.12 "Geolocation"
org.apache.cordova.media 0.2.16 "Media"
org.apache.cordova.media-capture 0.3.6 "Capture"
org.apache.cordova.network-information 0.2.15 "Network Information"
org.apache.cordova.splashscreen 1.0.0 "Splashscreen"
org.apache.cordova.vibration 0.3.13 "Vibration"

FYI cordova build android --debug works but --release do not work In my case i mean )).