Cordova / Phonegap Android - Java / Ant Issue on build?

Question

I have been all over this site, so please forgive me if someone else as posted this but I could not find anything that could fix my issue.

I am working on a Mac. With my IOS build, I have no problems at all.

However with Android, I am 'now' having some issues, when I run cordova build android I get the following error,

/Users/x/Library/Android/sdk/tools/ant/build.xml:601: The following error occurred while executing this line:
/Users/x/Library/Android/sdk/tools/ant/build.xml:720: The following error occurred while executing this line:
/Users/x/Library/Android/sdk/tools/ant/build.xml:734: Class not found: javac1.8

/Users/x/Desktop/One/platforms/android/cordova/node_modules/q/q.js:126
                throw e;
                      ^
Error code 1 for command: ant with args: debug,-f,/Users/x/Desktop/test/platforms/android/build.xml,-Dout.dir=ant-build,-Dgen.absolute.dir=ant-gen

ERROR building one of the platforms: Error: /Users/x/Desktop/test/platforms/android/cordova/build: Command failed with exit code 8
You may not have the required environment or OS to build this project

I use the word 'now' because this error I thought I had fixed and it was working but I have changed nothing with the PATHS Any where in my terminal, I can run javac - version which gives me javac 1.8.0_25. So it can different see java.

So I thought Apache Ant might have gone wrong, but when I run ant -version I get Apache Ant(TM) version 1.9.4 compiled on April 29 2014 - So yes I am running Ant version 1.9.4, which as far as I am aware should work with my java version?

So my system can access but java & ant without any issue but I can not build my new Android app. I am now running this in a clean, new (without any plugins or my code) build and still it will not work.

Any help?

Thanks

Solution 1

Sorry about posting late, I forgot all about this post. I sorted out my issues. I am not sure why I was having issues, but I re-built my Mac, I installed homebrew to manage ant, that solved all my issues.

Solution 2

I solve my problem. On my config.xml I missed the platform tag ir order to configure the icons and splash screen:

<platform name="ios">
</platform>
<platform name="android">
</platform>

Here is the Cordova doc

Maybe you have something misconfigured like me. Hope It helps

Solution 3

Tried my android app on two different Linux machines, the first at work, the second at home. Had the same error at home while it had worked at the office. When I started :

adb logcat

I discovered that, after the .apk upload, my android device rejected it because the signature was different than my previous build.

The solution was dead simple: uninstall the previous version on the device.

Check your device log, error may come from that side !

Solution 4

For me as others might have this problem

I had an old plugin inside the android.json that I hadn't removed.

So I deleted the android.json file and then did

phonegap run android

This will rebuild the plugins from what is in your config.xml

Then it worked for me.

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Comments

[Daniel Aron Goldenberg]

@Harry I found my solution and change the Answer. Thanks for your guidance on last post.

[Emad Aghaei]

Tnx Daniel, your solution works for me. but After that my emulator do not shows any thing. in my console the message is "HAX is working and emulator runs in fast virt mode creating window 28 27 320 480 Booting up emulator (this may take a while ......."

[Dimosthenis Kontogiorgos]

That is not a solution.

[Dimosthenis Kontogiorgos]

Agreed. But you have not narrowed down your solution enough to give sufficient details on how to fix it. We would otherwise rebuild our Mac every time we encountered a problem. :)

[user4458505]

I was really just saying, I should have installed it on Homebrew to start with, I am really more a Windows user and did not know about it. As from my understanding, it can handle version numbers, therefore easily to control (update/remove) versions.

[Jamie Hutber]

My solution will fix the problem without a complete rebuild!

[whirish]

I had switched from using Ubuntu (where it had worked perfectly) to Windows 8 and uninstalling the app on my phone worked great.

[raider33]

Big time saver. This is worth trying by everybody since it is so simple.