bug: missing library with zoom plugin.

Bug Report

I’m not sure if that’s the right project to file the bug report, please forgive if I’m wrong and point me to the correct project.

Capacitor Version

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Latest Dependencies:

  @capacitor/cli: 3.6.0
  @capacitor/core: 3.6.0
  @capacitor/android: 3.6.0
  @capacitor/ios: 3.6.0

Installed Dependencies:

  @capacitor/cli: 3.5.1
  @capacitor/core: 3.5.1
  @capacitor/android: 3.5.1
  @capacitor/ios: 3.5.1

[success] iOS looking great! 👌
[success] Android looking great! 👌

Using following plugins:

   "@awesome-cordova-plugins/zoom": "^5.43.0",
   "cordova.plugin.zoom": "^4.6.2166-6.603",

Platform(s)

• android

Current Behavior

ionic cap run android fails at the gradle build:

[capacitor]         FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.
[capacitor]
[capacitor]         * What went wrong:
[capacitor]         Execution failed for task ':capacitor-cordova-android-plugins:generateDebugRFile'.
[capacitor]         > Could not resolve all files for configuration ':capacitor-cordova-android-plugins:debugCompileClasspath'.
[capacitor]         > Could not find :commonlib:.
[capacitor]         Required by:
[capacitor]         project :capacitor-cordova-android-plugins
[capacitor]         > Could not find :mobilertc:.
[capacitor]         Required by:
[capacitor]         project :capacitor-cordova-android-plugins

Expected Behavior

The app is built and run on an Android device or emulator

Code Reproduction

ionic start
# select Angular, starter template: tabs, 
npm install cordova.plugin.zoom 
npm install @awesome-cordova-plugins/zoom 
ionic cap add android
ionic cap sync android
ionic cap open android # open once in AndroidStudio for additional project configuration
ionic cap run android # needs a configured android device or emulator

The resulting project can be found here: https://github.com/mley/cordova-zoom-plugin-build-issue

Other Technical Details

npm --version output: 8.12.1

node --version output: v14.19.2

pod --version output (iOS issues only):

Additional Context

The same error happens when trying to build the app in AndroidStudio.

In android/capacitor-cordova-android-plugins/build.gradle you can find:

repositories {
    google()
    mavenCentral()
    jcenter()
    flatDir{
        dirs 'src/main/libs', 'libs'
    }
}

when I check the actual directory structure in android/capacitor-cordova-android-plugins/src/main/libs , there is another subdirectory called android, which contain commonlib.aar and mobilertc.aar. When I change the flatDirs dir entry to dirs 'src/main/libs/android', 'libs', the app can be built in AndroidStudio, but still not with ionic. I assume ionic overwrites the change in build.gradle.

[jcesarmobile]

Thanks for the sample app. I’ve seen that the plugin has a custom gradle file that adds the

flatDir {
    dirs 'libs/android'
}

but that has no effect on Capacitor apps

as workaround you can edit the plugin.xml from zoom plugin from

<source-file framework="true" src="libs/android/commonlib.aar" target-dir="libs/android" />
<source-file framework="true" src="libs/android/mobilertc.aar" target-dir="libs/android" />

to

<source-file framework="true" src="libs/android/commonlib.aar" target-dir="libs" />
<source-file framework="true" src="libs/android/mobilertc.aar" target-dir="libs" />

so the files are copied to the root libs folder instead of the android subfolder

or use a capacitor:sync:after hook to modify the capacitor-cordova-android-plugins gradle file after sync command, because as you said, sync command undoes the manual changes you made to that file.

using flatDir is deprecated and will probably stop working on gradle 8, so we won’t be fixing this issue, try reporting the issue to zoom so they can use a different approach, but the plugins looks unmaintained, so not sure if they will fix it

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