#Android Tips and Workarounds This document covers tips, tricks, and known workarounds for problems with the Cordova Android platform.
It covers the following tips and issues:
- May 26th, 2015 Android Security Issue - Click for Details.
- Could not create Java Virtual Machine error
##Could Not Create Java Virtual Machine Error When building for Android, you may encounter a set of errors in the Errors List like the following:
Error Could not create the Java Virtual Machine.
Error A fatal exception has occurred. Program will exit.
Error C:\cordova\BlankCordovaApp2\BlankCordovaApp2\platforms\android\cordova\build.bat: Command failed with exit code 1
The problem is that the Ant or Gradle build systems are running out of heap memory when trying to compile your application. To resolve this problem you can increase the heap of the JVM by setting the following environment variable and restarting Visual Studio:
_JAVA_OPTIONS=-Xmx512M
More specifically, following the instructions from this article:
- Open the Control Panel
- Go to System
- Go to Advanced Systems Properties
- Go to Environment Variables
- In System Variables, click Add
- New Variable Name: _JAVA_OPTIONS
- New Variable Value: -Xmx512M
- Click OK
- Now restart Visual Studio to ensure the variable is picked up
If this does not resolve the issue, you can upgrade to a 64-bit version of the JDK from here and update the JAVA_HOME environment variable to the new install location.