Plugin not working

[coderReview]

Create a project using the steps in readme.
Running using:

cordova run --debug android

I get the exception:

java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.salesforce.androidsdk.phonegap.plugin.SalesforceOAuthPlugin

[toddhalfpenny]

I have found that I need to, following cordova prepare that I need to open in Android Studio to build and run the project. Using the cordova commands at this stage causes me issues.

[coderReview]

In android studio I get a lot of errors:
Error:(5, 0) Project with path ':libs:SmartSync' could not be found in project ':SalesforceHybrid'.

[toddhalfpenny]

Ah right, there is a post install script that should run after the SF plugin us added. This requires shelljs npm package to be installed locally. Could be that this is not there?

[coderReview]

It is there. What cordova version is to be used? Can it be the latest one?

[wmathurin]

Could you run:

npm list -g | grep -A1 forcedroid

To see what version of forcedroid and dependent packages you are using.

shelljs released a new version (0.6.0) on thursday which causes forcedroid to not copy files the right way when setting up an hybrid applications. We should have a patch release out soon.

[coderReview]

What version of shelljs is compatible with forcedroid?

[wmathurin]

0.5.3 works fine

[coderReview]

Using 0.5.3 work partially. I had to manually run the script to update the AndroidManifest.xml:

shjs plugins/com.salesforce/tools/postinstall-android.js

[coderReview]

After that when building the code using

cordova build android

I get the following error:

platforms/android/build/intermediates/manifests/full/debug/AndroidManifest.xml:35:23-41 : No resource found that matches the given name (at 'icon' with value '@drawable/sf__icon').

[coderReview]

Only worked if I open the project in Android Studio

[toddhalfpenny]

Yup, same here (though I had the same with earlier version of shelljs).

[coderReview]

Now I am getting error in dexDebug because of the android method limit. Caused by the play services library.

[toddhalfpenny]

Cool, you can overcome this by replacing the following line in build-gradle with this;

compile "com.google.android.gms:play-services:7.5.0"

with

compile "com.google.android.gms:play-services-gcm:7.5.0"

This reduces the Google services to be pulled in.

I have some notes on my progress and issues so far, but not thoroughly tested yet.

[coderReview]

Thanks. Got it to compile. Now I manage to login to Salesforce, but got a new error:
java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: dalvik.system.PathClassLoader[DexPathList[[zip file "/data/app/xxx/base.apk"],nativeLibraryDirectories=[/vendor/lib, /system/lib]]] couldn't find "libstlport_shared.so"

[toddhalfpenny]

Good stuff, I have seen that too... But can't remember how I git round it. Sorry not at my pc till Monday (it's Sat night where I am), but I can post up then if you don't get past this by then.

Might be worth searching the issues on this repo for any errors as I did initially post a few of my notes up.

[coderReview]

Found it in previous issue. Finally managed to get the application working. I will do a merge request for the play service and libstlport_shared.so issue.

Still don't understand why the AndroidManifest.xml file didn't get updated when the plugin is added only after running shjs manually.

[toddhalfpenny]

Fantastic!
You don't happen to have other plugins installed do you?

[coderReview]

Lots of other plugins, :).

cordova-plugin-console
cordova-plugin-datepicker
cordova-plugin-device
cordova-plugin-network-information
cordova-plugin-splashscreen
cordova-plugin-statusbar
cordova-plugin-whitelist
cordova-plugin-x-toast
ionic-plugin-keyboard
phonegap-plugin-push

[toddhalfpenny]

Ah right, so I have a theory that the SF plugin currently needs to be the last to be added, otherwise things don't quite go to plan.
You could try removing the sf plugin, removing and adding the platform and then re-adding the SF plugin.
Like I said I have some notes but nothing to concrete yet.

[coderReview]

There is a fetch.json file. The Salesforce plugin is the last one in the file.

[coderReview]

What I did.

cordova platform rm android
cordova plugin rm com.salesforce
cordova platform add android@5.0.0
cordova plugin add https://github.com/forcedotcom/SalesforceMobileSDK-CordovaPlugin.git

AndroidManifest.xml wasn't updated by the post installation script.

[bhariharan]

This issue should be resolved in our 4.1 release, which is now live.