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We are happy to announce that Cordova Android 7.1.3 has been released! This release resolves a couple more issues releated to plugin compatibility.

If you have been staying on Cordova Android 6.x due to compatibility issues with 3rd party plugins, we strongly encourage you to try an update to Cordova Android 7.1.3. Please file issues if you run into any plugin compatibility issues with this new release.

To upgrade:

npm install -g cordova
cd my_project
cordova platform remove android
cordova platform add android@latest

To add it explicitly:

cordova platform add android@7.1.3

Curated Changelog

• Incorrect default sdk version issue fix (#495)
• Update comments in build.gradle (#496)
• Fix dest overwrite, in case of of plugin source-file element with target-dir that does not need remapping (#539)
• Support plugin source-file element with any app target-dir value (#542)
• Compatibility of old plugins with non-Java source-file entries (individual files) (#550)
• add missing cast for cdvMinSdkVersion to build.gradle (#551)
• Check for build-extras.gradle in the parent app directory (#553)