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andy
andy

Reputation: 8875

Cordova Error: Your ios platform does not have Api.js

I'm trying to build a cordova ios app but not having much luck and getting strange errors.

Using this version of Cordova with older version of cordova-ios is deprecated. Upgrade to [email protected] or newer.

Error: Your ios platform does not have Api.js

The first warning says my cordov-ios version is old, which is strange as this is my output:

$ cordova --version
7.0.1



$ cordova platform version ios

Installed platforms:
  ios 4.4.0
Available platforms: 
  android ~6.2.2
  blackberry10 ~3.8.0 (deprecated)
  browser ~4.1.0
  osx ~4.0.1
  webos ~3.7.0

So I clearly have the latest versions necessary.

And then the Api.js error. What is causing this?

Error: Your ios platform does not have Api.js

Any ideas?

Upvotes: 61

Views: 100027

Answers (9)

Christopher
Christopher

Reputation: 2266

I got this error in Windows 10 trying to run a "cordova plugins add ..." command to my android/ios app. I had the latest Node/NPM already and did not want to platform rm/add again. Instead I tried the "cordova plugins add ..." command on my OSX laptop instead of Windows 10 ... and it worked. No idea how/why but thankful it worked. Realize this may not help most w/this error but maybe someone else out there in same boat.

Upvotes: 0

Sinan Samet
Sinan Samet

Reputation: 6752

This problem can also occur when you have both the Android and iOS installed. At least this was the case for me.

When I ran the command:

cordova platform rm android

It started to work

Upvotes: 2

InsaurraldeAP
InsaurraldeAP

Reputation: 682

I always fix this error removing the platform and adding it again (android in my case)

phonegap platform rm android

wait until it finishes...

phonegap platform add android

And that´s it. Let me know if it is fixed for you.

Upvotes: 1

Juan Angel
Juan Angel

Reputation: 726

Downgraded to cordova 8 and it's working.

Upvotes: 1

Ruan
Ruan

Reputation: 4283

For those of you that have tried updating your NodeJs and that didn't work.

Go check in your platforms/android or platforms/ios folder. Mine was empty. Delete the folder, and run ionic cordova add android/ios again.

Upvotes: 1

Gandhi
Gandhi

Reputation: 11935

Has same issue with latest version of cordova (7.0.1)

Faced error while adding iOS platform and managed to resolve it by upgrading nodeJS to latest version (6.11.1)

Upvotes: 2

lnd Shawn
lnd Shawn

Reputation: 19

use [email protected] solved the problem

Upvotes: 1

David Vezzani
David Vezzani

Reputation: 1469

I'm guessing that attempting to use deprecated code is the reason for seeing the error message.

It appears that one should be using the latest version of node. I also performed all my software updates for Xcode. I also connected my iPhone to my computer. Even after that (and before I updated node) I was still seeing this:

cordova platform add ios

Warning: using node version v0.12.0 which has been deprecated. Please upgrade to the latest node version available (v6.x is recommended).
Using cordova-fetch for cordova-ios@^4.4.0
Adding ios project...
Error: Your ios platform does not have Api.js

Then I decided to resolve the warning by updating node. And finally success:

sudo n latest
node --version
=> v8.0.0

cordova platform rm ios
cordova platform add ios

Using cordova-fetch for cordova-ios@~4.4.0
Adding ios project...
Creating Cordova project for the iOS platform:
    Path: platforms/ios
    Package: com.example.hello
    Name: HelloWorld
iOS project created with [email protected]
Installing "cordova-plugin-whitelist" for ios
--save flag or autosave detected
Saving ios@~4.4.0 into config.xml file ...

Upvotes: 36

LuminousEagle
LuminousEagle

Reputation: 781

I was having exactly this problem but managed to solve it by simply removing and then adding the IOS platform within my project:

cordova platform rm ios
cordova platform add ios

This seemed to fix whatever had somehow got broken when updating Cordova...

Upvotes: 75

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