:CordovaLib:compileDebugJavaWithJavac - is not incremental

Question

I am trying to setup Ionic on my new machine but I have ran into a problem with building a Cordova Android project, that I cannot seem to fix. The programs and versions I use are:

NodeJS v6.9.1
npm v3.10.8
Cordova v6.4.0
Ionic v1.3.22
Apache Ant 1.9.7
Windows 7 SP1

For building I use Java 8:

JAVA_HOME: C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_112
Java version: 1.8.0_112

For building my android project I use SDK version 21 (5.0.1)

I have created an Ionic started project via the command: ionic start test tabs and didn't change any code of the project.

The errror

While using the command ionic build android I get the error :CordovaLib:compileDebugJavaWithJavac - is not incremental (e.g. outputs have changed, no previous execution, etc.).

What I tried

I Tried running running cordova update and after that ionic build - This did not work.

After that I tried using an other java jdk version (1.8.0_45). The setup on my old machine was working with this version. I also changed the JAVA_HOME variable with this attempt. Unfortunately I had no luck with this attempt.

On multiple topics it is suggested to use JDK 8, because JDK 7 is not compatible with android versions 21 and up. But I get this error while using JDK 8 so that doesn't solve my problem.

I tried removing the android platform and readd it. That also did not solve my problem. It gave me the same error message.

Additional information

Adding the Android platform via the Ionic command ionic platform add android@5.0.1 gives me an error. It does not know that version number (but according to Android SDK manager 5.0.1 = android 21).

Using ionic platform add android@5.0.0 gives me android version 23. So that does not work either.

Because of the problems above I manually changed the version numbers in the Android platform. I changed the version number to 21 on the following places:

test\platforms\android --> AndroidManifest.xml
test\platforms\android --> project.properties
test\platforms\android\CordovaLib --> project.properties

I have had no problem before with changing the version numbers before.

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 01 '16 at 10:31

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Try to Update your JRE and JDK and IONIC as well.

answered Dec 01 '16 at 10:31

Najam Us Saqib

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This is the newest version of Ionic before 2.0 and I don't want to use Ionic 2. Also this is the newest JRE & JDK version. – Mr.wiseguy Dec 01 '16 at 11:25
updating ionic to version 2 will cause no effects on your current projects. – Najam Us Saqib Dec 01 '16 at 11:29
You are right about that, but that doesn't solve this issue since I am using this ionic version on my old machine, which works? – Mr.wiseguy Dec 01 '16 at 11:56
I tried it anyway, but unfortunately still have the same error. – Mr.wiseguy Dec 01 '16 at 12:02
may be because you were using old versions of cordova, nodejs and other thing so this version of ionic worked fine for you. – Najam Us Saqib Dec 01 '16 at 12:04

:CordovaLib:compileDebugJavaWithJavac - is not incremental

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