Ionic project won't build (or run) after android plugin updated to 2.2.0

Question

Error message:

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

• What went wrong: A problem occurred configuring root project 'android'.

  A problem occurred configuring project ':CordovaLib'. Could not resolve all dependencies for configuration ':CordovaLib:classpath'. Could not find com.android.tools.build:gradle:2.2.0. Searched in the following locations: https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/com/android/tools/build/gradle/2.2.0/gradle-2.2.0.pom https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/com/android/tools/build/gradle/2.2.0/gradle-2.2.0.jar Required by:

      android:CordovaLib:unspecified
  

Answer 1

Remove platforms/android folder and add Android again:

ionic platform add android

Answer 2

buildscript {
    repositories {
        mavenCentral()
        maven { url "https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots/" }
        jcenter()
    }
    dependencies {
    classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:2.2.0'
    }

}

add jcenter() to your repositories. this worked for me.

Answer 3

A bit late but as the other answers didn't work hopefully this will help others

Update your Android CordovaLib to the latest version

• https://cordova.apache.org/blog/
• Find the latest version and run the command given
• e.g. cordova platform update [email protected]

If this is not possible (or doesn't work) manually change the file

\platforms\android\CordovaLib\build.gradle and add in jcenter()

repositories {
    mavenCentral()
    jcenter()
}

Answer 4

 buildscript {
    dependencies {
       classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:2.2.0'
 }
}

try modifying these in your build.gradle . good luck