Cordova build failed

Question

I have installed Cordova but when I run $ cordova build in the terminal, it shows the following error. Please help me out.

BUILD FAILED

Total time: 8.645 secs Error: /home/borsha/hello/platforms/android/gradlew: Command failed with exit code 1 Error output: /home/borsha/hello/android-sdk-linux/build-tools/26.0.1/aapt: 1: /home/borsha/hello/android-sdk-linux/build-tools/26.0.1/aapt: Syntax error: ")" unexpected

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

• What went wrong: Execution failed for task ':CordovaLib:processDebugResources'. com.android.ide.common.process.ProcessException: Failed to execute aapt

• Try: Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output.

UPDATE

BUILD FAILED

Total time: 2.799 secs Error: /home/borsha/hello/platforms/android/gradlew: Command failed with exit code 1 Error output: /home/borsha/hello/android-sdk-linux/build-tools/25.0.0/aapt: 3: /home/borsha/hello/android-sdk-linux/build-tools/25.0.0/aapt: Syntax error: Unterminated quoted string

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

• What went wrong: Execution failed for task ':CordovaLib:processDebugResources'. com.android.ide.common.process.ProcessException: Failed to execute aapt

• Try: Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output.

Answer 1

Try downgrading API level to 23.0.3. You can do that using Android SDK Manager and Android Studio or you can follow the instructions here.

Versions newer than 23.0.3 still have bugs.