if you need to replace/update a platform in your mobilespec project, the sequence
- cordova platform remove android - cordova platform add android - cordova plugin remove org.cordova.mobile-spec-dependencies - cordova plugin add ../cordova-mobile-spec/dependencies-plugin will not work correctly. instead use: - cordova platform remove android - cordova plugin remove org.cordova.mobile-spec-dependencies - cordova platform add android - cordova plugin add ../cordova-mobile-spec/dependencies-plugin Since platform add attempts to preserve plugins, but does it incorrectly, I created a bug for this: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-4275
