Error: Could not find gradle wrapper within Android SDK. Might need to update your Android SDK - Android

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Edit 3:

Cordova Android 6.2.2 has been released and it's fully compatible with SDK tools 26.0.x and 25.3.1. Use this version:

cordova platform update [email protected]

or

cordova platform rm android
cordova platform add [email protected]

Edit 2:

There has been another Android SDK tools release (26.0.x) that is not fully compatible with cordova-android 6.2.1.

Edit: Cordova Android 6.2.1 has been released and it's now compatible with latest Android SDK.

You can update your current incompatible android platform with cordova platform update [email protected]

Or you can remove the existing platform and add the new one (will delete any manual change you did inside yourProject/platforms/android/ folder)

cordova platform rm android cordova platform add [email protected]

You have to specify the version because current CLI installs 6.1.x by default.

Old answer:

Sadly Android SDK tools 25.3.1 broke cordova-android 6.1.x

For those who don't want to downgrade the SDK tools, you can install cordova-android from github url as most of the problems are already fixed on master branch.

cordova platform add https://github.com/apache/cordova-android

I just experienced the same problem.

It may be an occlusion in the instructions regarding how to install (or upgrade) Android Studio with all the SDK Tools which both you and I missed or possibly a bug created by a new release of Studio which does not follow the same file conventions as the older versions. I lean towards the latter since many of the SO posts on this topic seems to point to an ANDROID_PATH with a folder called android-sdk which does not appear in the latest (2.3.0.8) version.

There appears to be a workaround though, which I just got to work on my machine. Here's what I did:

• Download tools_r25.2.3-windows.zip from Android Downloads.

• Extracted zip on desktop

• Replaced C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Android\sdk\tools with extracted sub-folder tools/

• In project folder:

  $ cordova platforms remove android
  $ cordova platforms add android

You may also need to force remove the node_modules in android. Hopefully this helps.

(Basically what @user3464070 already said)

For Mac:

cd ~/Library/Android/sdk
# download latest tools
curl -O https://dl.google.com/android/repository/tools_r25.2.3-macosx.zip
# overwrite existing tools folder without prompting
unzip -o tools_r25.2.3-macosx.zip
# clean up
rm tools_r25.2.3-macosx.zip

1. If you have android studio installed within your system, then copy the templates folder from C:\Program Files\Android\Android Studio\plugins\android\lib\templates
2. Paste it in the folder C:\Users\<user-name>\AppData\Local\Android\sdk\tools
3. Run the command: ionic build android

All necessary jar files will be downloaded and apk file for the application will be generated.

Note: Set environment variables to C:\Users\<user-name>\AppData\Local\Android\sdk\tools. Also set user-name to your current username.

For Linux there is even a bit better solution.

Navigate to https://developer.android.com/studio/index.html#downloads

and download the command line tools zip file (bottom of the page) for linux. Extract them to your ..../Android/Sdk/ folder so you overrwrite/extend your tools folder. Now everything works fine.

For anyone who is still having this issue, this worked for me:

    cordova platform update android@latest

then build and it will automatically download the newest gradle version and should work

There's no need to downgrade Android Tools. On Windows, Gradle moved from:

C:\Users\you_username\AppData\Local\Android\sdk\tools

to:

C:\Program Files\Android\Android Studio\plugins\android\lib\templates\gradle\wrapper

So you just need to adjust your path so that it points to the right folder.