Error doing cordova platform add android in cordova 3.3

Question

I'm using cordova 3.3.0 on Windows in cygwin, and I'm getting the following error when I try to add the android platform

Error: An error occured during creation of android sub-project. 

C:\Users\Mike\.cordova\lib\android\cordova\3.3.0\bin\node_modules\q\q.js:126
                throw e;
                      ^
Please install Android target 19 (the Android newest SDK). Make sure you have the latest Android tools installed as well. Run "android" from your command-line to install/update any missing SDKs or tools.

I have the latest available versions or java, ant and the android sdk api 19 installed, as well as the latest android tools, platform-tools and build-tools but the error persists. (I tried to post an image of my SDK Manager to show this but I don't have enough reputation :(

The end of my PATH variable contains the correct locations for android tools and platform-tools as suggested here

....:/cygdrive/c/Users/Mike/bin:/cygdrive/c/Tools/apache-ant-1.9.3/bin:/cygdrive/c/Tools/sdk/platform-tools:/cygdrive/c/Tools/sdk/tools:/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Java/jdk1.7.0_51/jre/bin

The strange thing is that my project used to build correctly, but then stopped working when nothing noticeable had changed. I've fixed this before by building a new cordova project, but now I get this error with a brand new HelloWorld cordova project:

Mike@Mike-VAIO /cygdrive/c/workspaces/apps
$ cordova create test com.example.test HelloWorld
Creating a new cordova project with name "HelloWorld" and id "com.example.test" at location "C:\workspaces\apps\test"

Mike@Mike-VAIO /cygdrive/c/workspaces/apps
$ cd test

Mike@Mike-VAIO /cygdrive/c/workspaces/apps/test
$ cordova platform add android
Creating android project...
Error: An error occured during creation of android sub-project. 

C:\Users\Mike\.cordova\lib\android\cordova\3.3.0\bin\node_modules\q\q.js:126
                    throw e;
                          ^
Error: Please install Android target 19 (the Android newest SDK). Make sure you have the latest Android tools installed as well. Run "android" from your command-line to install/update any missing SDKs or tools.

I've tried reinstalling cordova but that doesn't help. Does anyone have any other ideas?

many thanks in advance

Answer 1

You should check if Target 19 really exists. Go to your android SDK folder, then to platforms and check if there is a folder called android-19.

But still this looks like cordova is not able to point out your android SDK folder or your target 19 folder.