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[Android] App crashes at start.

See original GitHub issue

Steps to reproduce:

cordova create test-app com.test.sample
cordova platform add android
cordova run android # It's ok
cordova plugin add cordova-admob-plus --variable ADMOB_APPLICATOIN_ID=<MY_ADMOB_APPID>
cordova run android # crash

adb logcat messages:

adb logcat com.test.sample *:E

10-07 14:18:41.528 27114 27114 E AndroidRuntime: FATAL EXCEPTION: main
10-07 14:18:41.528 27114 27114 E AndroidRuntime: Process: com.test.sample, PID: 27114
10-07 14:18:41.528 27114 27114 E AndroidRuntime: java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to get provider com.google.android.gms.ads.MobileAdsInitProvider: java.lang.IllegalStateException:
10-07 14:18:41.528 27114 27114 E AndroidRuntime:
10-07 14:18:41.528 27114 27114 E AndroidRuntime: ******************************************************************************
10-07 14:18:41.528 27114 27114 E AndroidRuntime: * The Google Mobile Ads SDK was initialized incorrectly. AdMob publishers    *
10-07 14:18:41.528 27114 27114 E AndroidRuntime: * should follow the instructions here: https://goo.gl/fQ2neu to add a valid  *
10-07 14:18:41.528 27114 27114 E AndroidRuntime: * App ID inside the AndroidManifest. Google Ad Manager publishers should     *
10-07 14:18:41.528 27114 27114 E AndroidRuntime: * follow instructions here: https://goo.gl/h17b6x.                           *
10-07 14:18:41.528 27114 27114 E AndroidRuntime: ******************************************************************************
10-07 14:18:41.528 27114 27114 E AndroidRuntime:
10-07 14:18:41.528 27114 27114 E AndroidRuntime:
10-07 14:18:41.528 27114 27114 E AndroidRuntime: 	at android.app.ActivityThread.installProvider(ActivityThread.java:6501)
10-07 14:18:41.528 27114 27114 E AndroidRuntime: 	at android.app.ActivityThread.installContentProviders(ActivityThread.java:6064)
10-07 14:18:41.528 27114 27114 E AndroidRuntime: 	at android.app.ActivityThread.handleBindApplication(ActivityThread.java:5968)
10-07 14:18:41.528 27114 27114 E AndroidRuntime: 	at android.app.ActivityThread.-wrap1(Unknown Source:0)
10-07 14:18:41.528 27114 27114 E AndroidRuntime: 	at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1684)
10-07 14:18:41.528 27114 27114 E AndroidRuntime: 	at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:105)
10-07 14:18:41.528 27114 27114 E AndroidRuntime: 	at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:164)
10-07 14:18:41.528 27114 27114 E AndroidRuntime: 	at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:6759)
10-07 14:18:41.528 27114 27114 E AndroidRuntime: 	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
10-07 14:18:41.528 27114 27114 E AndroidRuntime: 	at com.android.internal.os.Zygote$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(Zygote.java:240)
10-07 14:18:41.528 27114 27114 E AndroidRuntime: 	at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:770)

As described in the instructions link https://goo.gl/fQ2neu, I need to manually add a meta-data to the AndroidManifest.xml file to resolve this error.

wx20181007-143155

Can this be fixed?

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Created 5 years ago
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znegvacommented, Oct 11, 2018

A quick workaround for me was to add the following to my config.xml inside of the <platform name="android"> block:

<config-file parent="/manifest/application" target="AndroidManifest.xml">
    <meta-data 
        android:name="com.google.android.gms.ads.APPLICATION_ID"
        android:value="ca-app-pub-3940256099942544~3347511713" />
</config-file>

I also had to add xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" to widget.

I think if these changes (of course with replacing with the correct App-ID) would be added to the plugins plugin.xml everything would be fine.

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codemasterlikecommented, Oct 24, 2018

Thanks all. Problem solved for my case:

I remove all the plugin, and try to run $ cordova build android, with no issue (better list all the plugin and remove one by one to test)
I install the android service : $ cordova plugin add cordova-android-play-services-gradle-release
I install Admob plus
run $ cordova build android again. And it is Ok now.