Cordova File plugin never becomes ready in Android

Question

I have a dead simple Cordova app with a single plugin: org.apache.cordova.file.

When I emulate the app in an android emulator, the deviceready event is

Answer 1

Try installing the 1.1.0 version of the file plugin. Updating to 1.2.0 was a bad idea.

cordova plugin add org.apache.cordova.file@1.1.0

This made the job for me on Android (and on iOS I stopped having other exotic problems).