Cordova - ArgumentError - Illformed requirement `"$IOS_FIREBASE_ANALYTICS_VERSION"`

I know there has been a few other issues about the same problem with different variable names in the past, but it doesn’t work for me since I updated the plugin to the latest version.

I’m using cordova@9.0.0 and cordova-plugin-firebase-analytics@4.4.1.

The generated PodFile and pods.json contain the raw string “$IOS_FIREBASE_ANALYTICS_VERSION” instead of its substituted value.

# DO NOT MODIFY -- auto-generated by Apache Cordova
source 'https://cdn.cocoapods.org/'
platform :ios, '10.0'

target 'App' do
	project 'App.xcodeproj'
	pod 'Firebase/Analytics', '$IOS_FIREBASE_ANALYTICS_VERSION'
end

Running ionic cordova platform add ios --verbose fails with

ArgumentError - Illformed requirement `"$IOS_FIREBASE_ANALYTICS_VERSION"`
...
Failed to install 'cordova-plugin-firebase-analytics': Error: pod: Command failed with exit code 1

No issues so far when adding the android platform. Any idea ? Thanks

[chemerisuk]

@Reqven @geeksilva97 upgrade your cordova-ios version to 6.0.0 at least.

[geeksilva97]

ionic cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-firebase-analytics --variable IOS_FIREBASE_ANALYTICS_VERSION=“~> 6.31.0”

"cordova-plugin-firebase-analytics": {
  "IOS_FIREBASE_ANALYTICS_VERSION": "~> 6.31.0"
}

I already tried this exact command, and even with the variable being added into the packages.json, still doesn’t work. The variable is still not being replaced. I have no idea why it would work fine for Android and not for iOS.

This happened to me too. Try to clean all and exec the command again. Something like:

1. rm -rf platforms plugins www node_modules
2. npm i
3. ionic cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-firebase-analytics --variable IOS_FIREBASE_ANALYTICS_VERSION="~> 6.31.0"
4. ionic cordova prepare ios.

Alternatively you can do the changes that ai suggested earlier or install from my repo using ionic cordova plugin add https://github.com/geeksilva97/cordova-plugin-firebase-analytics