Cordova / Ionic build android Gradle error: Minimum supported Gradle version is 2.14.1. Current version is 2.13

Question

This is a solution to the above error that I want to document. I found other similar posts, but none described how this error can be associated with Cordova or Ionic.

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Answer 1

I'd love to just leave this as a comment, but I'm apparently not reputable enough...

After reading your documentation, I wasn't able to resolve my issue with your suggestion of keeping the Android Studio to "Use default gradle wrapper". What I did find is that setting the session variable CORDOVA_ANDROID_GRADLE_DISTRIBUTION_URL before building got me a bit further:

root@dev:$ export CORDOVA_ANDROID_GRADLE_DISTRIBUTION_URL="https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-2.14.1-all.zip"
root@dev:$ cordova build android

The next thing I had to do was edit /platforms/android/build.gradle and /platforms/android/CordovaLib/build.gradle and make sure they both pointed to a valid gradle plugin version.

dependencies {
    classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:2.2.0'
}

...and in /platforms/android/CordovaLib/build.gradle I added jcenter in the repositories (because maven.org did not seem to have 2.2.0)

repositories {
    mavenCentral();
    jcenter()
}

I was able to build then.