ionic build generate android app with old support library

Question

I am building ionic app, when I run ionic cordova add android the android app is created successfully but when open it to build in using android studio I got errors in some activities that android.support.v4 not found and it is solved when changing it to androidx , where should I change this settings from ionic application itself to avoid build issues in android studio?

Answer 1

as explained in docs , you need to wait for the plugin developers to fix it and in the meantime a workaround is to patch the plugin with jetifier:

npm install jetifier
npx jetify
npx cap sync android

If you want to change the plugin, you have a create a new custom plugin and copy their code into it and change it there, which is usually harder.