Ionic-cli: ENOENT for platforms/android/res/xml on building app for android with App Preferences plugin installed

[Genarito]

Description:

I having a problem bulding my app after installing App Preferences plugin.

To corroborate, I created a new Tab project, it was builded successfully, but then, I installed that plugin and problems came back again.

Steps to Reproduce:

1. ionic start beautiful_error
2. cd beautiful_error
3. ionic cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-app-preferences
4. npm install --save @ ionic-native/app-preferences
5. ionic cordova build android

Output:
Building terminates with this error:

will push strings array {"name":"lang","titles":["English (US)","English (UK)"],"values":["en-us","en-gb"]}
unhandled exception { Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, mkdir 'platforms/android/res/xml'
errno: -2,
code: 'ENOENT',
syscall: 'mkdir',
path: 'platforms/android/res/xml' }
(node:10363) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, mkdir 'platforms/android/res/xml'
(node:10363) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Unhandled promise rejection. This error originated either by throwing inside of an async function without a catch block, or by rejecting a promise which was not handled with .catch(). (rejection id: 1)
(node:10363) [DEP0018] DeprecationWarning: Unhandled promise rejections are deprecated. In the future, promise rejections that are not handled will terminate the Node.js process with a non-zero exit code.

[BenjaminGlusa]

Same here. It occurs when executing ionic cordova platform add android.

[imhoffd]

Does this happen with Cordova 7?

[BenjaminGlusa]

In my case it is Cordova 7.0.0.

[Genarito]

Me too

[Genarito]

Other detail: when I execute ionic cordova plugin remove cordova-plugin-app-preferences this happens:

Settings.bundle is generated by external tool, skipping
unhandled exception { Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, unlink 'platforms/android/res/xml/apppreferences.xml'
errno: -2,
code: 'ENOENT',
syscall: 'unlink',
path: 'platforms/android/res/xml/apppreferences.xml' }
(node:27274) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, unlink 'platforms/android/res/xml/apppreferences.xml'
(node:27274) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Unhandled promise rejection. This error originated either by throwing inside of an async function without a catch block, or by rejecting a promise which was not handled with .catch(). (rejection id: 1)
(node:27274) [DEP0018] DeprecationWarning: Unhandled promise rejections are deprecated. In the future, promise rejections that are not handled will terminate the Node.js process with a non-zero exit code.

[Genarito]

Same happens with Background Geolocation plugin!

[ichinnasamy]

Any body found a solution, I get the same error.

[ichinnasamy]

In my case it is cordova 8.0.0

[Genarito]

I have an old virtual machine with Cordova 6 and error doesn't happen. But I tried downgrading versions in this project and got the same error

[imhoffd]

@Genarito I tried this out a little while ago and was getting it, too. I apologize I haven't had time to dig further. I've been busy with Ionic CLI 4. If you find out more, please update the issue. Otherwise I'll try to find some time at a later date.

[Genarito]

No problem! Thank you so much

[jqzhao]

Is there any update? We're seeing exactly the same error. Android build fails and so did removing app-preferences. I'm on cordova 8 and cordova android 7.1.0. Didn't see this problem before upgrade cordova android from 6.3.0 to 7.1.0

[Genarito]

I have discovered that it's an already issue in the plugin's repo. As one user said on it, it can be fixed with:

cordova plugin add https://github.com/vash15/me.apla.cordova.app-preferences

Note: perhaps you need to increase the minSdk parameter at your config.xml file to "19" to get it working

[imhoffd]

^ keep in mind that's a forked version

[looiwailung]

a poor version for this cordova 7.0.0, the root cause is the /res folder disappear. so only way is to downgrade to version 6.3.0

[Edison4mobile]

@Genarito Thanks a lot.
You are awsome!!! +++++