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

you can change the value in platform/android/cordova/lib/builders/GradleBuilder.js

the value you changed, it will be replaced by the lastest gradle zip when you reinstall android platform, so you don't need to worry about change it

var distributionUrl = process.env['CORDOVA_ANDROID_GRADLE_DISTRIBUTION_URL'] || 'https\\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-2.14.1-all.zip';

or like the others ans

export CORDOVA_ANDROID_GRADLE_DISTRIBUTION_URL="https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-2.14.1-all.zip"

Answer 2

Switching back to "Use default gradle wrapper" didn't work for me on my ionic 1 project, but running

ionic platform remove android
ionic platform add android

Worked for me

Answer 3

For me, the following commands solved the problem:

cordova platform remove android

cordova platform add android

ionic build android

Answer 4

In follow up to Chuck Holbrooks answer, with following solution I get an error when trying to add android platform again saying it is already added.

ionic cordova platform remove android
ionic cordova platform add android

My working Solution:

ionic cordova platform remove android
ionic cordova platform check android
ionic cordova platform add android 

Answer 5

Another way to fix issue, that also works on Windows:

cordova build android --release --CORDOVA_ANDROID_GRADLE_DISTRIBUTION_URL=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-2.14.1-all.zip

Answer 6

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 <project>/platforms/android/build.gradle and <project>/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 <project>/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.