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Failed to require PlatformApi instance for platform "android". Using polyfill instead

I have recently upgraded my Ionic/Cordova dev environment and am having issues rebuilding my project. Initially when building the project, I was getting an error as the cordova-plugin-device plugin was used installed twice and thus couldnt be accessed by the phone.

I went to remove my android platform and re-add it so it would have to reinstall the plugins taking into account the dependencies for each plugin.

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When I tried to add my platform back again, I received the Failed to require PlatformApi instance for platform "android". Using polyfill instead. error which then cast an TypeError: Cannot read property 'replace' of undefined error.

My development environment is as follows:

Cordova CLI: 5.4.0
Gulp version:  CLI version 3.9.0
Gulp local:
Ionic Version: 1.1.0
Ionic CLI Version: 1.7.12
Ionic App Lib Version: 0.6.5
OS: Windows 10 Pro
Node Version: v5.3.0
Solution

  • This worked for me after experiencing the same problem

    I have found that making sure that I had to make sure that I have that the id attribute had to be filled in the <widget> tag in the config.xml file. i.e. it should look something like this <widget id="com.example.app" ...>.

    In my case I had removed the id attribute because I was using android-packageName and ios-CFBundleIdentifier so I could have different package names (bundle identifier) for Android and iOS.