We want plugman to always work, even if you don't have the android sdk installed. So, plugman calling "android update project" is not allowed.
As of cordova-5.0, this line will be re-written by the build script to its Gradle equivalent, where no "android update project" call is necessary (this was an ANT thing) One issue we have seen with gradle though, is that people haven't installed the Support Repository into their SDK. We could consider having the android build script detect whether the requisite directories exist on the machine, and show an error earlier in this case. On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 2:40 PM, Axel Nennker <ignisvul...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > the documentation here > > > https://cordova.apache.org/docs/en/4.0.0/plugin_ref_spec.md.html#Plugin%20Specification_info_element > > says that some tasks needed by <framework ...> are not done by plugman. > > <framework src="extras/android/support/v7/appcompat" custom="false"> > > > But it seems quite easy to do this by calling this command e.g. for Google > Play Services: > $ android update project --path . --library > > /home/ignisvulpis/Android/Sdk/extras/google/google_play_services/libproject/google-play-services_lib/ > --target android-21 > > Cordova has all the information that is needed, right?! > Or doesn't this work in all cases? > > My latest custom plugin can not be added to my project because plugman's > android.js calls the property-parser which tries to determine the > androidSdkDir which fails because it tries to open local.properties which > was not created (by cordova). > Why doesn't plugman try ANDROID_HOME (too)? > > I think that using "android update project ..." would always work instead > of plugman editing project file directly. > > Axel > > ps: There are several unanswered > stackoverflow questions regarding Google Play Services and Cordova > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22002424/admob-with-cordova-3-and-google-play-services > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30399421/cordova-testing-google-play-game-services > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25872707/how-to-link-google-play-services-to-cordova-project >
