BUILD FAILURE: Manifest Merger Failed

[willnix86]

Bug Report

Problem

Can't build Android project.

What is expected to happen?

Setting 'minSdkVersion' to 19 in the root config.xml should set the minSdk to 19 in the app.

What does actually happen?

Manifest merger failed : uses-sdk:minSdkVersion 14 cannot be smaller than version 19 declared in library [:CordovaLib] myProject/platforms/android/CordovaLib/build/intermediates/library_manifest/debug/AndroidManifest.xml as the library might be using APIs not available in 14
Suggestion: use a compatible library with a minSdk of at most 14,
or increase this project's minSdk version to at least 19,
or use tools:overrideLibrary="org.apache.cordova" to force usage (may lead to runtime failures)

Information

I have checked every single file in my project (including all plugins) and nowhere is the sdk version being overwritten. I have checked in all the Android projects folder after build and all I can see is references to sdk 19.

I do however, see cdvMinSdkVersion=14 in gradle.properties (Project Properties), so I guess the question is, where's that being set and why is it not overwritten?

Environment, Platform, Device

Using Cordova Android 8.0.0
Using Cordova 9.0.0
Using global Gradle 4.1

Checklist

• I searched for existing GitHub issues
• I updated all Cordova tooling to most recent version
• I included all the necessary information above

[breautek]

Cordova's config xml doesn't have a minSdkVersion option, I think you might mean android-minSdkVersion?

Documentation Reference

Also worth noting that Cordova doesn't support API levels < 19 when using Android platform 8. More info here

[willnix86]

Yeah sorry I just didn’t write the full thing out in the bug report - it’s all written as in the documentation. I’ve even upped it to 21 but still same error unless I add a build-extras.gradle specifying a min-sdk after build. So, in config.xml i have this: <preference name="android-minSdkVersion" value="21"/> In a build-extras.gradle, i have: ext.cdvMinSdkVersion = 21 Project fails unless I have the latter.

[breautek]

Interesting...

so <preference name="android-minSdkVersion" value="21"/> doesn't work but...

In a build-extras.gradle, i have:
ext.cdvMinSdkVersion = 21

does?

[willnix86]

Yeah, it’s very odd! I cannot find anywhere that’s making any reference to setting the minSdk to 14, yet without the build-extras overwrite, cdvMinSdkVersion in gradle.properties kills everything because it’s locked at 14 🤷🏻‍♂️

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[breautek]

I cannot find anywhere that’s making any reference to setting the minSdk to 14

A plugin could be doing this. If possible, I'd make a minimal reproducible project including only what is necessary to reproduce this issue. I'm willing to bet it will isolate the issue to a specific plugin.

[breautek]

This issue may be related to #599

[willnix86]

I tentatively say that the sdk issue is fixed now, but let me run a few more builds to make sure.

Another issue has arisen now, in that I get the following errors once the app has installed:

Failed to load resource: net::ERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND: cordova_plugins.js:1

Any thoughts on that one?!

[breautek]

Nope... Never seen that one before. I'd recommend creating a new issue to keep things organised if the issue persists.

[willnix86]

This issue seems to have resolved itself too. Unsure if it was the fault of one or more plugins but, either way, we're all good. Thanks for the help @breautek