Cordova build error after update to 3.5.0

Question

I have an Android Cordova app that built perfectly on Cordova 3.4. I just update to Cordova 3.5.0 and the build fails, showing these errors:

-code-gen:
[mergemanifest] Found Deleted Target File
[mergemanifest] Merging AndroidManifest files into one.
[mergemanifest] Manifest merger disabled. Using project manifest only.
     [echo] Handling aidl files...
     [aidl] No AIDL files to compile.
     [echo] ----------
     [echo] Handling RenderScript files...
     [echo] ----------
     [echo] Handling Resources...
     [aapt] Found Deleted Target File
     [aapt] Generating resource IDs...
     [aapt] D:\Proyectos\Trialtea\Proyecto 31 - Aplicaciones HTML5\05. Aplicaciones Google Play\phonegap_projects\InglesEn100DiasTurbo\platforms\andro
id\ant-build\AndroidManifest.xml:2: error: Error: Float types not allowed (at 'versionCode' with value 'NaN').

BUILD FAILED
D:\Recursos\Android_Development\adt-bundle-windows-x86_64-20130729\sdk\tools\ant\build.xml:653: The following error occurred while executing this line
:
D:\Recursos\Android_Development\adt-bundle-windows-x86_64-20130729\sdk\tools\ant\build.xml:698: null returned: 1

Total time: 5 seconds
Error code 1 for command: cmd with args: /s,/c,ant,debug,-f,D:\Proyectos\Trialtea\Proyecto 31 - Aplicaciones HTML5\05. Aplicaciones Google Play\phoneg
ap_projects\InglesEn100DiasTurbo\platforms\android\build.xml,-Dout.dir=ant-build,-Dgen.absolute.dir=ant-gen
Error: cmd: Command failed with exit code 2
    at ChildProcess.whenDone (C:\Users\Albert\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\cordova\node_modules\cordova-lib\src\cordova\superspawn.js:135:23)
    at ChildProcess.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:98:17)
    at maybeClose (child_process.js:743:16)
    at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (child_process.js:810:5)

There's an error on line 15 about Error: Float types not allowed (at 'versionCode' with value 'NaN', which I don't know why it happens. I have in my project's root the config.xml file with version code set to 3, but for some reason, when I build the project, the AndroidManifest.xml is set with versionCode="NaN".

The error shown at the end I have no idea what it means or if it's related to the error above.

Could anyone help me figure this out?

Oh, after updating Cordova via npm I also updated the Android platform in the projects folder using cordova platform update android.

Answer 1

I have solved this changing the "version" attribute in www/config.xml (even if it seems unrelated because the problem is with versionCode).

Just add a third minor version number, for instance I changed from 0.6 to 0.6.3

Answer 2

With cordova 3.5 the property in your config.xml should be android-versionCode="??" instead of versionCode="??"