Failed to execute aapt with cordova

Question

I am working on a cordova project that has been working fine for a while, and suddenly I started to get a very strange error whenever the build reaches \":app:processArm64De

Answer 1

For those who facing this issue after 17/06/2019. After spending number of hours on this issue finally found the solution. This build failure is due to a Major version release of the Google Play Services and Firebase on 17/06/2019

ionic cordova platform rm android
ionic cordova platform add android@8.0.0 
ionic cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-androidx 
ionic cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-androidx-adapter

Note: This will resolve your issue

Note: If you are using cordova-plugin-firebase and encountering errors, you can use this plugin which is published as cordova-plugin-firebasex and is fixed to resolve issues caused by the new Firebase SDK:

rm -Rf platforms/android
cordova plugin rm cordova-plugin-firebase
rm -Rf plugins/ node_modules/
npm install
cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-firebasex
cordova platform add android

I hope this will help.

cheers!