无法在Ubuntu 14.04上添加Cordova Platform Android

Question

I am running a newly installed ubuntu 14.04 system, I am unable to get past the following error, please help

hoomi@hoomi-Vostro-3446:~/work/boozing/boozing-mobile$ sudo cordova platform add android
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/cordova-android/4.0.0
npm http 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/cordova-android/4.0.0
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/cordova-android/-/cordova-android-4.0.0.tgz
npm http 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/cordova-android/-/cordova-android-4.0.0.tgz
Adding android project...

/home/hoomi/.cordova/lib/npm_cache/cordova-android/4.0.0/package/bin/node_modules/q/q.js:126
                    throw e;
                          ^
Package name must look like: com.company.Name
Error: /home/hoomi/.cordova/lib/npm_cache/cordova-android/4.0.0/package/bin/create: Command failed with exit code 8
    at ChildProcess.whenDone (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/cordova/node_modules/cordova-lib/src/cordova/superspawn.js:131:23)
    at ChildProcess.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:98:17)
    at maybeClose (child_process.js:743:16)
    at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (child_process.js:810:5)
hoomi@hoomi-Vostro-3446:~/work/boozing/boozing-mobile$ 

Answer 1

 Package name must look like: com.company.Name 

This tells it has something to do with your application's package name.

If you check your config.xml in your app's root folder, you will find your package name with the value against id . For example:

<widget id="com.example.hello" version="0.0.1">

So, check the package name in there, Android's documentation will guide you for naming your package name:

A full Java-language-style package name for the application. The name should be unique. The name may contain uppercase or lowercase letters ('A' through 'Z'), numbers, and underscores ('_'). However, individual package name parts may only start with letters . To avoid conflicts with other developers, you should use Internet domain ownership as the basis for your package names (in reverse). For example, applications published by Google start with com.google. You should also never use the com.example namespace when publishing your applications.

The package name serves as a unique identifier for the application. It's also the default name for the application process (see the element's process process attribute) and the default task affinity of an activity (see the element's taskAffinity attribute).

Caution : Once you publish your application, you cannot change the package name. The package name defines your application's identity, so if you change it, then it is considered to be a different application and users of the previous version cannot update to the new version.

If I can see it right, you may have used a - (hyphen) in your app's package name. So in that case, you will have to remove it.

Answer 2

As per this Answer by Mladen , you need to follow all the rules of writing the package name.

I faced the same issue where i had '-' in my company name