platforrms/android not added after adding crosswalk, ionic run android fails

[arunr]

I did the following:

1. ionic start my_app
2. cd my_app
3. ionic browser add crosswalk

I see the following after that:

Adding crosswalk browser
Downloaded cordova-crosswalk-engine
Downloaded Cordova Android for Crosswalk
Downloading: https://download.01.org/crosswalk/releases/crosswalk/android/stable/8.37.189.14/arm/crosswalk-webview-8.37.189.14-arm.zip
Downloading: https://download.01.org/crosswalk/releases/crosswalk/android/stable/8.37.189.14/x86/crosswalk-webview-8.37.189.14-x86.zip
[=============================] 100% 0.0s
[=============================] 100% 0.0s
Downloaded Crosswalk webviews
Fetching Android SDK API 19.1.0
Downloaded Android runtime (API 19)
Removed old Cordova Android platform
Added Cordova Android 4.0
Added Crosswalk Webview Engine
Ionic Browser Add completed for Crosswalk

1. After this when I do ionic run android, I see:
   No platforms added to this project. Please use cordova platform add <platform>.

Am I expected to manually add the android platform?

[arunr]

Also, if I do go ahead and add android platform, I am not sure that crosswalk is getting packaged when I run the app (I verified this because the size of the output apk is the same as without crosswalk).

[jbavari]

@arunr - the ionic browser add crosswalk should take care of everything for you. You should not have to manually add the android version.

I think what is happening here is an error perhaps and not reporting it?

First, go ahead and run ionic info and copy/paste that info here so I can see what your runtime is.

Second, if you list the contents after the command has finished, is there nothing inside the platforms/android folder?

[mahabahu]

Hi,

I am also getting this type of error with below message.

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

• Where:
  Script '/Users/mahabahubehera/kross/platforms/android/cordova.gradle' line: 52

• What went wrong:
  A problem occurred evaluating script.

  No usable Android build tools found. Highest installed version is 19.0.3; minimum version required is 19.1.0.

• Try:
  Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output.

BUILD FAILED

Total time: 2.335 secs

/Users/mahabahubehera/kross/platforms/android/cordova/node_modules/q/q.js:126
throw e;
^
Error code 1 for command: /Users/mahabahubehera/kross/platforms/android/gradlew with args: assembleDebug,-b,/Users/mahabahubehera/kross/platforms/android/build.gradle,-Dorg.gradle.daemon=true
Error: /Users/mahabahubehera/kross/platforms/android/cordova/run: Command failed with exit code 8
at ChildProcess.whenDone (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/cordova/node_modules/cordova-lib/src/cordova/superspawn.js:135:23)
at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:98:17)
at maybeClose (child_process.js:756:16)
at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (child_process.js:823:5)

[jbavari]

@mahabahu - please run android in your command line, locate and install the `Android SDK Build-tools 19.1.0

Hopefully that will fix the issue.

[mahabahu]

@jbavari - While installing the SDK 19.1 i am getting following error
Downloading Android SDK Build-tools, revision 19.1
Failed to create directory /usr/local/Cellar/android-sdk/22.6.2/temp

[jbavari]

Are you installing the android tools with brew?

[jbavari]

@mahabahu - after doing a little research, it looks like your issue is more with the sdk not updating due to some permission or other file related errors.

I'd start researching on how to update the sdk without the errors you're having, as well trying sudo android to see if that helps by running it with higher permissions.

[Fayozjon]

if you are running on windows try to turn off UAC, It helped me now.

[arunr]

@jbavari thanks for your help! When I run ionic info, I see this:

OS: Mac OS X Yosemite
Node Version: v0.10.28
Cordova CLI: 3.5.0-0.2.4
Ionic Version: 1.0.0-beta.11
Ionic CLI Version: 1.3.1
Xcode version: Xcode 6.1.1 Build version 6A2008a
ios-sim version: 1.9.0

Also, after running ionic browser add crosswalk, my platforms/ directory is empty - no android inside that directory.

[mahabahu]

@jbavari: I have tried with sudo android but with no success. Though i have already installed android studio and it has a sdk manager with updated build tool 22.1.0. But while running the android command it opens another instance of SDK manager in a different path as i mentioned above.

[colllin]

Im having this problem too. ionic browser add crosswalk@10.39.235.15 runs successfully, but then ionic run android yields this error:

The provided path "/Users/collin/Projects/ionicapp/platforms/android" is not an Android project.

$ ionic info

Your system information:

OS: Mac OS X Yosemite
Node Version: v0.10.35
Cordova CLI: 3.5.0-0.2.4
Ionic Version: 1.0.0-beta.14
Ionic CLI Version: 1.3.2
Xcode version: Xcode 6.1.1 Build version 6A2008a 
ios-sim version: 3.1.1 

[colllin]

I think I got it working! I'm not sure what fixed it - I think the main thing was reloading my terminal. But I also updated npm to the latest version. The first thing that started working -- after ionic browser add crosswalk and then failing to run ionic run android -- running ionic platform android started giving me an error that the engine.crosswalk plugin required cordova-android version >= 4.0.0-dev. Once I upgraded cordova to the latest (v4.2) (npm update -g cordova), ionic run android seems to be building an app!

[arunr]

@colllin this worked for me too... thanks so much! (* upgrade cordova, and re-launch my terminal). Now I need to figure out how to get the plugins working!

[colllin]

I'm not sure this should be closed yet... At the very least it should detect the issue and print out instructions for how to fix it. Better if it can just fix the problem for you.