FabricPlugin: Crashlytics was applied to a project without an Android plugin

I got this error:

Failed to fetch plugin https://github.com/chancezeus/FabricPlugin.git via registry. Probably this is either a connection problem, or plugin spec is incorrect. Check your connection and plugin name/version/URL. Failed to get absolute path to installed module (node:34859) [DEP0018] DeprecationWarning: Unhandled promise rejections are deprecated. In the future, promise rejections that are not handled will terminate the Node.js process with a non-zero exit code.

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For those looking for a quick fix for now, I just created a quick fork with my fixes applied. I tested a quick build with android 7.0.0 and there seem to be no problems. The fix should remain backwards compatible and thus should be pullable as is without any issues. Pull request (#122) has been submitted but for now you can install my version using: [ionic] cordova plugin add https://github.com/chancezeus/FabricPlugin.git --variable FABRIC_API_KEY={YOUR API KEY} --variable FABRIC_API_SECRET={YOUR API SECRET}

Hope it helps those in need 😌

@viking2917 The edits have to be done in the plugins/… folder before adding the platform, otherwise the gradle change also has to be applied in the copy created by cordova inside the android platform folder

Fix for this issue:

in hooks/lib/utilities.js replace getBuildGradlePath function with:

function getBuildGradlePath() {
    var target = path.join("platforms", "android", "app", "build.gradle");
    if (fs.existsSync(target)) {
        return target;
    }

    return path.join("platforms", "android", "build.gradle");
};

This triggers a new error because in the src/android/build-extras.gradle the config.xml is referenced in the wrong location, fixing it by pointing to the correct folder makes it work but breaks backwards compatibility so if anyone knows a fix that maintains backwards compatibility please comment.

Simple (not-backwards compatible) fix: Replace def config = file("res/xml/config.xml").getText() with def config = file("src/main/res/xml/config.xml").getText()

@chancezeus OK that did it.

ionic cordova platform rm android
cordova plugin add cordova-fabric-plugin --variable FABRIC_API_KEY=<yourkey> --variable FABRIC_API_SECRET=<yourkey>
(your edits done to the files under the plugin folder per the above)
ionic cordova platform add android

And that did the trick. Thank you so much!

Hi, Did you find a solution for this ? I’m on cordova 8 and cannot downgrade. Thanks

Looks like issue #119 is exactly the same.

Looks like this is an incompatibility of the plugin with cordova-android platform 7.0.0.

After updating Android platform to version 6.4.0:

ionic cordova platform rm android
ionic cordova platform add android@6.4.0

Generated Gradle script builds OK.