Capacitor: [Android Studio] Errors after Capacitor update in Android Studio

[peterpeterparker]

[X] I would to submit a bug or support question

Current behavior

I'm not sure if it's a bug or just something I should ignore, but each time I update capacitor in my existing test project, build, copy and then open Android Studio I face the following errors (first error popup straight after Android Studio open, the other one after automatic build)

16.03.18
15:02 Unsupported Modules Detected: Compilation is not supported for following modules: assets-capacitor-android-plugins~1, capacitor-android-plugins. Unfortunately you can't have non-Gradle Java modules and Android-Gradle modules in one project.

15:02 Unsupported Modules Detected: Compilation is not supported for following modules: assets-capacitor-android-plugins~1, capacitor-android-plugins. Unfortunately you can't have non-Gradle Java modules and Android-Gradle modules in one project.

15:02 Unregistered VCS root detected
The directory /Users/me/Documents/projects/lab/capacitor-camera is under Git, but is not registered in the Settings.
Add root Configure Ignore

15:03 Gradle sync started

15:03 Error Loading Project: Cannot load module assets-capacitor-android-plugins Details...

15:03 Platform and Plugin Updates: The following components are ready to update: Android Emulator, Google Play services

15:03 Project setup started

15:03 Gradle sync failed: java.lang.NullPointerException (41s 709ms)

Expected behavior

No error I guess, but like I said, maybe I do something wrong

Current way to solve this

To solve this, each time I remove the "platform"

rm -r android

and then add it again

npx cap add android
npx cap sync
npx cap open android

Steps to reproduce

npm remove --save @capacitor/core @capacitor/cli
npm install --save @capacitor/core @capacitor/cli
ionic build --prod
npx cap copy
npx cap open android

p.s.: all the above steps are successful and produce no errors

Others informations

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Gradle 4.6

Groovy: 2.4.12
Ant: Apache Ant(TM) version 1.9.9 compiled on February 2 2017
JVM: 1.8.0_60 (Oracle Corporation 25.60-b23)
OS: Mac OS X 10.12.6 x86_64

[jcesarmobile]

Do you have cordova plugins in your project?

[peterpeterparker]

@jcesarmobile to create the project I did "ionic start ..." answered no to "would you like to add iOS/android" and then as described in the doc, as far as I remember, deleted the splash screen plugin

[peterpeterparker]

@jcesarmobile to create the project I did "ionic start ..." answered no to "would you like to add iOS/android" and then as described in the doc, as far as I remember, deleted the splash screen plugin

but like I said, it's an existing one (the one I use for my camera tests)

[jcesarmobile]

what template did you choose?

[peterpeterparker]

@jcesarmobile menu ("hamburger menu top left")

[jcesarmobile]

I'm not able to reproduce, but might be related to removing capacitor cli as we write a lot of things there, so after removing it, better run a cap sync or cap update to make sure everything is recreated, specially if you have Cordova or custom plugins.

[peterpeterparker]

Same same.

You know what, this problem appears because Android Studio, the very first time I open the project (npx cap open android after having created a fresh new platform like described above) in it, create a folder capacitor-android-plugins with the following manifests/AndroidManifest.xml file in it

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
  <manifest package='capacitor.android.plugins' xmlns:android='http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android'>
</manifest>

Then, if I close it and open it again, it will try to compile this and complains.

Does that make sense? Do you also have such a folder/file in your project?

[jcesarmobile]

Yeah, I have it and doesn't complain about it

[peterpeterparker]

Weird....I'll keep an eye on it. I saw that I "need" to update one or two Android libs, maybe it will help

[JStumpp]

Maybe it is because the android studio files are committed. I had the same issue. After removing them it was not a problem any longer. I modified the default gitignore to reflect this:
https://github.com/ionic-team/capacitor/pull/378

[mlynch]

Keeping an eye on this. I haven't run into it myself

[peterpeterparker]

cool @JStumpp I'll will keep an eye on it too

if I can't reproduce it anymore, count on me to close the issue

[peterpeterparker]

mmmmh I could "still" reproduce the problem after upgrading from alpha25 to alpha31

I tried to remove the git origin (git remote rm origin) but they were none to remove

so I did

npm install --save @capacitor/core @capacitor/cli
ionic build --prod
npx cap sync
npx cap open android

[ArmorDarks]

I've left the project for about a week, then when returned faced the same set of errors. I even didn't change anything in it!

npx cap sync or npx cap update didn't make any difference, nor attempts to clear or rebuild project.

[ArmorDarks]

Removing and adding android directory again helped, though, none of the tracked by Git files changed, so I assume it is something to do with files listed in .gitignore...

[ArmorDarks]

Seems to be unrelated to the android directory at all, since resetting it to defaults doesn't help. However, resetting @capacitor node_modules content does help.

I assume Gradle writes in Capacitor node_modules something that later leads to this issue.

[durasj]

I had the same problem after I've returned to my project and updated the capacitor.

However, invalidating the cache and restarting (File > Invalidate Caches/Restart) did the job. Is that something you've tried?

[mlynch]

Closing without more info there's not much we can do here. Try invalidating caches and restarting as recommended above. It's just one of those things you get used to when doing Android development as Android Studio makes mistakes sometimes.

[krithikuntukad]

I am still facing the issue

[SergioSuarezDev]

same here

[Brayan233]

@SergioSuarezDev @krithikuntukad , i solved this issue by sync the project ( File -> Sync Project with gradle files)
Hope it will help

[jnettome]

Ty @Brayan233 , that fixes my build

[kristianmandrup]

I'm getting: Unsupported Modules Detected: Compilation is not supported for following modules: capacitor-cordova-android-plugins. Unfortunately you can't have non-Gradle Java modules and Android-Gradle modules in one project. which results in the same problem

[SergioSuarezDev]

@SergioSuarezDev @krithikuntukad , i solved this issue by sync the project ( File -> Sync Project with gradle files)
Hope it will help

works like a charm! thx

[jdcifuentes]

@SergioSuarezDev @krithikuntukad , i solved this issue by sync the project ( File -> Sync Project with gradle files)
Hope it will help

This worked.

[jnettome]

There's another way I've found to fix it, File -> Invalidate Caches / Restart -> Invalidate and Restart

[peterpeterparker]

Faced the issue, again.

Neither "Invalidate Caches / Restart" nor "Sync Project with gradle files" solved the problem, after each restart I still faced the issue.

Add no other choice than delete (rm -r android) and add (npx cap add android) the android project to clean it and "solve" the issue.

[razmans]

@SergioSuarezDev @krithikuntukad , i solved this issue by sync the project ( File -> Sync Project with gradle files)
Hope it will help

This works!

[hichamregoug]

i solved this by running the following command : ionic capacitor update android

it works fine !

[wannadream]

I am still getting this error. Tried all recommended solution.

[Niiitzer]

None of the recommended solutions worked for me.
Removing the /android/.idea folder did the job

[hichamregoug]

Try to close android studio, re open it and retry again : ionic capacitor update android

[Niiitzer]

@hichambranis thanks but that wasn't working on my side, don't know why.
Removing the /android/.idea folder helped me

[skmohammadi]

Removing the /android/.idea folder helped me :)

[heniotierra]

Removing the /android/.idea folder did the job

That did the trick for me!

[cdCarlos]

Faced the issue, again.

Neither "Invalidate Caches / Restart" nor "Sync Project with gradle files" solved the problem, after each restart I still faced the issue.

Add no other choice than delete (rm -r android) and add (npx cap add android) the android project to clean it and "solve" the issue.

Same here. I didn't remove android but even with the error shown by Android Studio saying that you cannot compile the project, I hit Build > Build Bundle(s) / APK(s) > Build APK(s) and it worked (and that's what I wanted)

[cdCarlos]

Removing the /android/.idea folder helped me :)

This removes the error

[florian-sander]

Removing the /android/.idea folder did the job

Same here. It was the only solution that worked for me. Thanks @Niiitzer !

[sunil-developer-ios]

Removing the /android/.idea folder helped me :)

Yes, did the trick. Thanks.

[lincolnthree]

This just keeps... coming... back. Anyone else keep having this issue over and over again? If so, how did you solve it?

[coffeymatt]

Yep, just keeps coming back for me, keep having to remove the idea folder

[coffeymatt]

@mlynch Any chance this could be reopened? It seems simple to reproduce with the latest versions of everything:

1. Clear out and recreate the android project
2. Run it, it works first time (asks to update gradle). Close it.
3. Run npx cap sync android
4. Run npx cap open android, error is back:

Unsupported Modules Detected: Compilation is not supported for following modules: capacitor-cordova-android-plugins, android-capacitor-cordova-android-plugins. Unfortunately you can't have non-Gradle Java modules and Android-Gradle modules in one project.

[richardkshergold]

I'm getting this error too @mlynch so maybe this should be re-opened.

[miainchambers]

I'm getting the error too. Trying to run a Vue Ionic app using 'npm run build:android' which just packages the npx stages.

"build:android": "npm run build; npx cap sync android; npx cap open android"