Cordova 6.4.0 Android error when building release apk

Question

I had a project working well on cordova 6.3.1 .

Then I updated cordova and my project to 6.4.0 . After this, first time I built, gradle got automatically updated to

Answer 1

This issue has been solved: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-12159

As of now you can use cordova platform add android@6.2.0-nightly.2016.12.9.6c60dc5d or cordova platform add https://github.com/apache/cordova-android

Keep in mind that the second command adds the latest version and it may introduce other bugs....

In the future you may use cordova platform add android@6.2.0 but as of now 6.2.0 does not exist. (Check here: https://github.com/apache/cordova-android/releases)

Answer 2

Try changing build.gradle' if (task.name == 'validateReleaseSigning') to if (task.name == 'assembleRelease').
This is probably related to the gradle version update in recent cordova-android updates.

Update: It seems that validateReleaseSigning task name was changed to validateSigningRelease in the newer Gradle version :\

So, the issue should be fixed in a next platform release (current is 6.2.0-dev).

Update #2: The PR was merged so you can use cordova platform add https://github.com/apache/cordova-android for now (beware of unreleased versions though).

Answer 3

Can you put your password into your build.json and see if works.

{
   "android": {
     "release": {
         "keystore": "path\\to\\keystore.keystore",
         "storePassword": "password",
         "alias": "alias",
         "password" : "password",
         "keystoreType": ""
     }
   }
}

I am on the same version as yourself, and this is my build.json.

I then just change to release and build solution to get release.apk

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