Cordova - Parsing of "config.xml" Fails

Question

I am currently unable to install Crosswalk and/or run builds using Cordova because Cordova keeps looking for the config.xml file in the wrong location.

Steps to reproduce:

cordova create hello com.example.hello HelloWorld
cd hello
cordova platform add android
cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-crosswalk-webview

Error: Unhandled "error" event. (Parsing 
/cordova/platforms/android/res/xml/config.xml failed)

Note: this path doesn't exist.

The correct path according to the directory/file structure should be:

/cordova/platforms/android/app/src/main/res/xml/config.xml

Is there any way to change the path that Cordova looks for the config.xml file?

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Cordova: 8.0.0

Gradle 4.4.1

Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS

Node: 8.9.3

NPM: 5.6.0

Answer 1

In my case there was an logical error in config.xml Check your config.xml whether are you making any logical mistakes in describing your resources.

Answer 2

In my case,

I incorrectly added GTM resource-file into config.xml like this:

<platform name="android">
     <resource-file src="GTM-XXXXXXX.json" target="assets/containers/GTM-XXXXXXX.json" />

I knew because I noticed after saving config.xml, the preview of the file changed to unknown. So, I just removed

<platform name="android">

and moved

<resource-file src="GTM-XXXXXXX.json" target="assets/containers/GTM-XXXXXXX.json" />

to under

<engine name="android"/>

and the problem solved.

Answer 3

In my case I did the following:

ionic cordova platform rm android --save
ionic cordova platform add android@6.4.0 --save

Answer 4

I made a fix here, seems to work. Not sure if cordova or cordova-android have recently changed the locations