Ionic / Cordova Android build errors

As soon as android sdk releases an update. Gradle updates it automatically. Many a times it results in the build error. It is important to pin some of the libraries to a specific version.

There are many ways to do this.

1. Change in build-extras.gradle

   This will wipe out everytime you remove the platform. You need to manually add those lines again. Perhaps we could have a hook here do the job as well.

   configurations.all {
       resolutionStrategy {
           force 'com.android.support:support-v4:27.1.0'
       }
   }

2. Installing a plugin to pin the version