Ionic Cordova Android build error

Question

I'm trying to build an Android version of a "blank" project with IONIC, now i'm stuck with this error. Has anyone experienced this before, and what would your answer be?

FAILED

BUILD FAILED

Total time: 2.179 secs 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. Error: cmd: Command failed with exit code 1 Error output: 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.

[ERROR] An error occurred while running cordova build android (exit code 1).

Answer 1

The way i solved this problem is as below:

1. npm uninstall cordova ionic

2. npm install -g cordova@7.0.0 ionic@3.19.0

3. cordova platform rm android

4. cordova platform add android