Error compiling in phonegap build PLAY_SERVICES_VERSION

What happens is that when I’m trying to compile in phonegap build, it tells me the following error:

BUILD FAILED

Total time: 0.773 secs
Error: /project/gradlew: Command failed with exit code 1 Error output:
FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* Where:
Build file '/project/build.gradle' line: 257

* What went wrong:
A problem occurred evaluating root project 'project'.
> Could not get unknown property 'PLAY_SERVICES_VERSION' for object of type org.gradle.api.internal.artifacts.dsl.dependencies.DefaultDependencyHandler.

* Try:
Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output.
    at ChildProcess.whenDone (/project/cordova/node_modules/cordova-common/src/superspawn.js:169:23)
    at emitTwo (events.js:106:13)
    at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:191:7)
    at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:877:16)
    at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:226:5)

I already made the correction regarding the update that was made, adding the variable PLAY_SERVICES_VERSION = “11.8.0” in my config.xml being as follows:

<plugin name="cordova-plugin-googlemaps" spec="^2.2.2">
        <variable name="API_KEY_FOR_ANDROID" value="API-ANDROID" />
        <variable name="API_KEY_FOR_IOS" value="API-IOS" />
        <variable name="PLAY_SERVICES_VERSION" value="11.8.0" />
    </plugin>

I’m just uploading the www folder with the config.xml file inside it, and I know that the error is given to me by the plugin since if I remove it from the config.xml it lets me compile it normal in phonegap build.

Any help please, I need this urgent please

[wf9a5m75]

I tackled with PhoneGap build whole day, and I archived to build the plugin on PhoneGap build. The direct cause was you need to specify cli-7.1.0. But I also updated the plugin in order to support both cordova-android@6 and cordova-android@7. If you are still interested in the maps plugin, try cordova-plugin-googlemaps@2.2.3

[wf9a5m75]

I found the solution. You need to specify these tags into your config.xml.

<preference name="android-build-tool" value="gradle" />
<preference name="phonegap-version" value="cli-8.0.0" />

https://github.com/mapsplugin/v2.0-demo/blob/master/config.xml