I'm using Cordova to wrap an Angular project into an Android apk. It worked a few months ago (without custimized icon though, if I remember correctly).
When I want to create a release build for Android with cordova build android --release now, I get the following error message:
BUILD FAILED in 26s
D:\[...]\Cordova\platforms\android\gradlew: Command failed with exit code 1 Error output:
FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.
* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':app:mergeReleaseResources'.
> java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: com.android.builder.internal.aapt.v2.Aapt2Exception: Android resource compilation failed
D:\[...]\Cordova\platforms\android\app\src\main\res\mipmap-mdpi\ic_launcher.png: error: failed to read PNG signature: file does not start with PNG signature.
Expected result: working .apk Actual result: no apk, aborted build process
The png is created in the building process, therefore I think the problem lies within the Cordova libs.
Cordova has been on version 10 before, while trying to fix the build process I stepped down to Version 9 [9.0.0 (cordova-lib@9.0.1)]. 9.1.0 wasn't found (Release Notes from the Blog), when I tried to install it.
When I remove the icon from the config.xml it shows the following error message:
FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.
* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':app:processReleaseResources'.
> Android resource linking failed
D:\[...]\Cordova\platforms\android\app\build\intermediates\merged_manifests\release\AndroidManifest.xml:50: AAPT: error: resource mipmap/ic_launcher (aka [id]:mipmap/ic_launcher) not found.
error: failed processing manifest.
Editing the Android manifest itself does not work as it also created/updated during the building process.
I ran the exiftool for the created png and it showed the following output:
"exiftool(-k).exe" ic_launcher.png
ExifTool Version Number : 12.32
File Name : ic_launcher.png
Directory : .
File Size : 15 KiB
File Modification Date/Time : 2021:07:16 14:09:50+02:00
File Access Date/Time : 2021:10:04 14:41:23+02:00
File Creation Date/Time : 2021:10:04 14:41:22+02:00
File Permissions : -rw-rw-rw-
Error : File format error
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This strengthens my suspicion that the error is inside the libs themselves.
The config.xml looks like this:
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<widget id="[---]" version="1.0.0" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/ns/widgets" xmlns:cdv="http://cordova.apache.org/ns/1.0">
<name>[---]</name>
<description>
[---]
</description>
<author email="[---]">
[---]
</author>
<content src="index.html" />
<access origin="*" />
<allow-intent href="http://*/*" />
<allow-intent href="https://*/*" />
<allow-intent href="tel:*" />
<allow-intent href="sms:*" />
<allow-intent href="mailto:*" />
<allow-intent href="geo:*" />
<icon src="www/assets/favicon.ico" platform="android" width="48" height="48" density="mdpi" />
<platform name="android">
<allow-intent href="market:*" />
</platform>
<platform name="ios">
<allow-intent href="itms:*" />
<allow-intent href="itms-apps:*" />
</platform>
</widget>
I also checked for the similar question here, but I haven't found a solution for my problem. In my opinion or what I found so far I think a fix in the libs is necessary or I overlooked something. So a workaround would be sufficient, too.
