Resolve: androidx.appcompat in ionic capacitor app issue

• idylladmin
• February 14, 2022

This issue occurs when some plugins of Cordova are installed in the ionic capacitor app.

And there are missing gradle dependency in the build.gradle of capacitor-cordova-android-plugins

So to fix this, this detail should always be put in the build.gradle immediatetly after every re-build and sync to and android

Once you have done:

ng build

ionic capacitor sync android

Then go to the build.gradle file of capacitor-cordova-android-plugins and add the dependency inside it every time

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fix: add missing gradle dependency for androidx.appcompat

in the section of “ext” add this line.

ext {

…

androidxAppCompatVersion = project.hasProperty(‘androidxAppCompatVersion‘) ? rootProject.ext.androidxAppCompatVersion : ‘1.2.0‘

….

}

Then in  the section of the “dependencies {” add the following line

dependencies {

…..

implementation “androidx.appcompat:appcompat:$androidxAppCompatVersion“

….

}

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The two lines above should always be done after every rebuild