Step 11.1: Add Android platform to Cordova

config.xml

@@ -16,11 +16,6 @@
     <preference name="BackupWebStorage" value="none" />
     <preference name="SplashMaintainAspectRatio" value="true" />
     <preference name="FadeSplashScreenDuration" value="300" />
-
-    <!--
-      Change these to configure how the splashscreen displays and fades in/out.
-      More info here: https://github.com/apache/cordova-plugin-splashscreen
-    -->
     <preference name="SplashShowOnlyFirstTime" value="false" />
     <preference name="SplashScreen" value="screen" />
     <preference name="SplashScreenDelay" value="3000" />
@@ -87,4 +82,5 @@
     <plugin name="cordova-plugin-device" spec="1.1.4" />
     <plugin name="cordova-plugin-splashscreen" spec="~4.0.1" />
     <plugin name="cordova-plugin-ionic-webview" spec="^1.1.11" />
+    <engine name="android" spec="~6.3.0" />
 </widget>

package.json

@@ -32,7 +32,14 @@
     "@ionic/storage": "2.0.1",
     "angular2-moment": "^1.7.0",
     "babel-runtime": "^6.26.0",
+    "cordova-android": "^6.3.0",
+    "cordova-plugin-device": "^1.1.4",
+    "cordova-plugin-ionic-webview": "^1.1.15",
+    "cordova-plugin-splashscreen": "^4.0.3",
+    "cordova-plugin-statusbar": "git+https://github.com/apache/cordova-plugin-statusbar.git",
+    "cordova-plugin-whitelist": "^1.3.1",
     "ionic-angular": "3.7.1",
+    "ionic-plugin-keyboard": "^2.2.1",
     "ionicons": "3.0.0",
     "lodash": "^4.17.4",
     "meteor-node-stubs": "^0.2.11",
@@ -55,5 +62,18 @@
   "description": "whatsapp: An Ionic project",
   "config": {
     "ionic_webpack": "./webpack.config.js"
+  },
+  "cordova": {
+    "plugins": {
+      "ionic-plugin-keyboard": {},
+      "cordova-plugin-whitelist": {},
+      "cordova-plugin-statusbar": {},
+      "cordova-plugin-device": {},
+      "cordova-plugin-splashscreen": {},
+      "cordova-plugin-ionic-webview": {}
+    },
+    "platforms": [
+      "android"
+    ]
   }
-}
+}