"java: package org.apache.cordova does not exist" when compliling Cordova in Android Studio

Question

New to android dev world and am just getting started here, well trying to anyway. I've downloaded Cordova (2.8, might need to upgrade this), Java JDK (1.7), and the new Android Studio, the Andriod SDK, installed all the 4.x packages with that, and installed ant (1.9.2).

Everything seems to be working as far as that goes. Problem is when I can create a Cordova project, from the command line, load it up in Studio using the import feature, not tweaking anything, just accepting (as I read to do so on some blog out there) and everything seems to load ok and the project is there in Studio, until I try to make it. At this point, I get and error "java: package org.apache.cordova does not exist" This is followed by several other errors, which I feel may be related. I'm not nor am I trying to do anything fancy here, just get the stock up and running.

Anybody know what I'm missing? Do I need to copy a file somewhere or compile something extra? Or am I using the wrong version of something? Thanks!

Answer 1

I found after hours of searching and trial and error (although mostly errors) I came to find that it was all due to missing the cordova-*.jar file. which needed to be built using the ant jar in the framework folder of my android cordova directory. This step had been majorly left out of a ton of documentation. Once built, I simply copied this into the 'libs' folder of my project and everything loaded up and ran, although I did get a warning about depreciated project from the compiler, creating an ant build and selecting 'external compiler' fixed this warning.