Android build was working, installed a plugin, which broke it, removed the plugin but the build is still broken. Any ideas?

[geoidesic]

Hi all. I'm having some trouble getting my Android build working. I think what has happened, but I'm guessing is this...

The android build was working just fine on 28th Oct. Then I installed the firebasex.FirebasePlugin and things started going wrong. The message I started seeing was about Android 14. Now I don't think cordova supports Android 14 based on this: https://cordova.apache.org/docs/en/11.x/guide/platforms/android/#android-api-level-support Maybe I'm wrong but I'm guessing that something outside of the project was changed as a result of something inside the project, like maybe the version of gradle or some stuff that's part of Android Studio, I don't know but since then I've removed that plugin and reverted to the old commit and yet the build is still dead.

The failure is:

BUILD SUCCESSFUL in 1s
1 actionable task: 1 executed
Subproject Path: CordovaLib
Subproject Path: app

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* Where:
Build file '/Users/noel/myapp/cordova/build/platforms/android/build.gradle' line: 21

* What went wrong:
A problem occurred evaluating root project 'Sportch'.
> Could not read workspace metadata from /Users/noel/.gradle/caches/8.13/groovy-dsl/f9c768613df66b75340eda79bfadd8c7/metadata.bin

* Try:
> Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace.
> Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output.
> Run with --scan to get full insights.
> Get more help at https://help.gradle.org.

BUILD FAILED in 933ms
Command failed with exit code 1: /Users/noel/myapp/cordova/build/platforms/android/tools/gradlew cdvBuildDebug
>>> ERROR: Android build failed

However, that folder groovy-dsl does not exist. I've tried deleting the caches but that didn't help.

I'm lost tbh. Any help appreciated.

[GitToTheHub]

If it worked without the plugin before and you removed it already, you can remove the android platform and add it again. Android 14 is supported, you referenced the docs for cordova 11, but the recent version is 12.x: https://cordova.apache.org/docs/en/latest/guide/platforms/android/index.html. The latest cordova-android version compiles against Android 15.