Error Cannot read property '1' of null while building ionic android app

Question

I am very new to Ionic Cordova applications. I am trying to build my ionic application for android platform using the following command --

ionic cordova build android

But it always fails with the following error

ERROR building one of the platforms: TypeError: Cannot read property '1' of null
You may not have the required environment or OS to build this project
Error: Cannot read property '1' of null
[ERROR] An error occurred while running cordova build android (exit code 1).

I am having the following configuration --

JDK 10.1, Cordova 6.0, Ionic 3

Answer 1

Your cordova version is old. The current version is 8.0.0 . You will need to update this cli package.

Secondly, cordova can only use JDK 1.8. You will have to install this version and set JAVA_HOME accordingly.