Error: Gradle: execution failed for task ':app:preDexDebug'

Question

I had a self created jar from another projected imported as a library into my other project. When I changed code in that project and exported a new jar to replaced the old o

Answer 1

For us, this was caused by the Android SDK build-tools version. Got the problem on v23.x, but not v22.x. You need to uninstall v23 for cordova to pick v22.

Possibly a symptom rather than a cause, but this may unstick someone in the same situation.