Android Studio - Could not find intellij-core.jar

Question

I am using android studio 3.1.4.

Error:Could not find intellij-core.jar (com.android.tools.external.com-intellij:intellij-core:26.0.1). Searched in the following loc

Answer 1

This issue is being tracked on Jira

A break down of the issue

Basically there was a problem uploading Google jars to jcenter and it is causing builds to fail.

The fix

Builds will work if we put the google maven repo ahead of jcenter.

On the 18th July the issue should have been addressed in the release of cordova-android 7.1.1, see change log here

The fix however did not work in all cases evidently.

A new fix has been made so expect this to be ready in 7.1.2, until then, remember to swap the ordering every time you remove and re-add the platform.