Import Cordova project in Android Studio

Question

I am trying to create a Cordova project. After creating the project cordova create myProject I would like to open it in Android Studio. The problem is ... it doesn't work.

The CordovaLib will not build with various errors package android.* does not exist.

Does anyone know how to import a cordova project in Android Studio?

Answer 1

Unfortunately the accepted answer is a bit out of date. Using Cordova v5.3.3 (it probably works on all versions > 5) it is much the same process a building and then entering XCode for an iOS application now - the build system has moved to gradle.

Before opening in Android Studio

cordova build android 

Then just open up the project using File > Open and pointing to the (yourProjectDir)/Platforms/Android directory.

If you are using an older version of the cordova android platform you might need to run

cordova platform android update 

To get moved to the gradle build system which is compatible with the current version of Android Studio

Answer 2

Make sure you import the "platform/android" directory underneath your cordova project (and you want to Import Project, not Open Project).

You will at least need to run

cordova prepare android 

before doing the import

cordova build android  

will also work, but it will create some ant directories which will not be used by Android Studio and you will have to actively ignore the files when importing otherwise you will get extra libraries in your project). Although I haven't imported a Cordova app into android studio recently, it definitely works in the Community edition of Intellij which Android Studio is based on (I did it yesterday with a project built from scratch with Cordova 3.5). I can't think of any of the additional features in Android Studio that would be useful that aren't in Intellij, as most of the additions which haven't been backported to Intellij are in the preview space which isn't going to work with Cordova anyway (all it is going to preview is a blank webkit view).