Update to work with cordova-android@7.0.0

[tombell]

The android platform directory changed structure with 7.0.0, so some things like the libs/ directory is ending up in the wrong place. Even if I copied the libs into the right directory, there were additional errors of things not being found, when trying to build.

[brody4hire]

Marked as a bug, thanks for reporting. Hoping to resolve this in the near future. Until then cordova-android@7 should NOT be considered supported.

P.S. The fundamental issue is a problem with adding JAR and NDK library files due to wrong plugin.xml tag used.

[tombell]

Awesome, thanks!

[NeoLSN]

Should be like this?
https://github.com/freakypie/card.io-phonegap/blob/master/plugin.xml#L16-L20

[brody4hire]

Should be like this?
https://github.com/freakypie/card.io-phonegap/blob/master/plugin.xml#L16-L20

@NeoLSN that looks right to me. For reference: https://cordova.apache.org/docs/en/latest/plugin_ref/spec.html#lib-file

I will investigate further when I get a chance. I wonder if it would work to use arch="*" to mean use library regardless of emulator or device.

Thanks for the hint!

[brody4hire]

@NeoLSN that looks right to me. For reference: https://cordova.apache.org/docs/en/latest/plugin_ref/spec.html#lib-file

I will investigate further when I get a chance. I wonder if it would work to use arch="*" to mean use library regardless of emulator or device.

Looks like there is a better solution at https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34115571/add-external-jar-library-to-build-cordova-plugin-ionic-framework/34129929#34129929: use lib-file element with no arch setting.

[NeoLSN]

Right now, seems this plugin will change the cordova context when installing it. So after this plugin installed, the other plugins would be install unsuccessfully.

[brody4hire]

Right now, seems this plugin will change the cordova context when installing it. So after this plugin installed, the other plugins would be install unsuccessfully.

I do not follow, can you please explain further?

[NeoLSN]

The installing order of my plugins is like this.

<plugin name="cordova-plugin-zeroconf" spec="^1.3.0" />
<plugin name="cordova-sqlite-storage" spec="^2.1.3" />
<plugin name="ionic-plugin-keyboard" spec="^2.2.1" />
<plugin name="ionic-plugin-deeplinks" spec="^1.0.15">

After installing cordova-sqlite-storage, ionic-plugin-deeplinks and ionic-plugin-keyboard would not install successs. The error message is like below.

Installing "cordova-sqlite-storage" for android

installing external dependencies via npm
npm install of external dependencies ok
Dependent plugin "es6-promise-plugin" already installed on android.

Installing "ionic-plugin-deeplinks" for android

Failed to install 'ionic-plugin-deeplinks': Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '<project_root>/platforms/android/AndroidManifest.xml'
    at Object.fs.openSync (fs.js:663:18)
    at Object.fs.readFileSync (fs.js:568:33)
    at Object.parseElementtreeSync (<project_root>/app/platforms/android/cordova/node_modules/cordova-common/src/util/xml-helpers.js:180:27)
    at new AndroidManifest (<project_root>p/platforms/android/cordova/lib/AndroidManifest.js:29:20)
    at AndroidProject.getPackageName (<project_root>/platforms/android/cordova/lib/AndroidProject.js:99:12)
    at Api.addPlugin (<project_root>/platforms/android/cordova/Api.js:223:57)
    at handleInstall (/Users/JasonYang/.nvm/versions/node/v9.3.0/lib/node_modules/cordova/node_modules/cordova-lib/src/plugman/install.js:594:10)
    at /Users/JasonYang/.nvm/versions/node/v9.3.0/lib/node_modules/cordova/node_modules/cordova-lib/src/plugman/install.js:357:28
    at _fulfilled (/Users/JasonYang/.nvm/versions/node/v9.3.0/lib/node_modules/cordova/node_modules/q/q.js:787:54)
    at self.promiseDispatch.done (/Users/JasonYang/.nvm/versions/node/v9.3.0/lib/node_modules/cordova/node_modules/q/q.js:816:30)

Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '<project_root>/platforms/android/AndroidManifest.xml'

But if I remove the cordova-sqlite-storage. It will work fine.

[NeoLSN]

Maybe this issue is from what you mentioned.
P.S. The fundamental issue is a problem with adding JAR and NDK library files due to wrong plugin.xml tag used.
And it breaks the AndroidStudio project structure, so causes other plugins can not be installed well.
https://github.com/apache/cordova-android/blob/master/bin/templates/cordova/Api.js#L65-L93

[mmp-schmitt]

@NeoLSN : "Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '<project_root>/platforms/android/AndroidManifest.xml'"
In fact this error message is a direct result of the modified directory structure. To overcome this error message I created a set of aliases, which enables old scripts to find the files back again.

cd /<project_root>/platforms/android
ln -s app/src/main/res .
ln -s app/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml .
ln -s app/src/main/java src

It will make this error message disappear, but I was not able to get the cordova-sqlite-ext running using cordova-android@7.0.0. It always reports "error: package io.liteglue does not exist".
I experimented with several combinations of the instruction in plugin.xml, but always got the same error message.
I would be grateful for any hint (even a temporary manual hack) to get this running. Thank you.