Announcing Capacitor 5.0

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Originally published at: Announcing Capacitor 5.0 - Ionic Blog

As Capacitor continues to mature, we’re excited to announce the arrival of the latest version of our powerful, open-source native runtime - Capacitor 5.0.

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thank you so much for the amazing job!

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I am currently on Capacitor v4.0.0

When I upgrade using the official migration guide, I run into issues on Android.

When I run npx cap migrate, my console shows this:

[error] npm install failed. Try deleting node_modules folder and running npm install --force manually.
✔ Update App Icon to only 1024 x 1024 in 2.50ms
✔ Remove Podfile.lock from iOS .gitignore in 1.46ms
[info] Set com.android.tools.build:gradle = 8.0.0.
[info] Set com.google.gms:google-services = 4.3.15.
✔ Migrating build.gradle file. in 22.38ms
✔ Remove android.enableJetifier=true from gradle.properties in 1.44ms
[error] Unable to update Android Manifest. Missing <activity> tag
✔ Migrating package from Manifest to build.gradle in 2.75ms
✔ Migrating gradle-wrapper.properties by updating gradle version to 8.0.2. in 326.42μs
✔ Migrating variables.gradle file. in 3.55ms
✔ Running cap sync. in 8.55s
✖ Upgrading gradle wrapper files - failed!
[error] gradle wrapper files were not updated
[info] IMPORTANT: Review https://capacitorjs.com/docs/next/updating/5-0#plugins for breaking changes in these plugins
       that you use: @capacitor/camera, @capacitor/local-notifications.
✔ Writing breaking changes. in 2.53ms
[success] Migration to Capacitor 5.0.0 is complete. Run and test your app!

iOS builds ok, but when I open Android Studio I am greeted with this error:

Namespace not specified. Please specify a namespace in the module's build.gradle file like so:

android {
    namespace 'com.example.namespace'
}

If the package attribute is specified in the source AndroidManifest.xml, it can be migrated automatically to the namespace value in the build.gradle file using the AGP Upgrade Assistant; please refer to https://developer.android.com/studio/build/agp-upgrade-assistant for more information.

I have tried updating the namespace in the build.gradle with no luck. What am I doing wrong?

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I had the same issue and it was caused by dirty data in android studio

my solution:

-open android studio
-clean build folder
-close android studio

do:
ionic build --prod
npx cap sync
npx cap open android

let android studio update all gradle stuff, libraries etc.

when ready, do your things.

you don’t have to change manually build.gradle

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Since version 5.0.2, npx cap migrate patches the build.gradle of plugins that have not been updated to Capacitor 5 to move the package name.

The migrate command failed in the package install step, try running npm install --force manually (or similar command depending on your package manager) after deleting node_modules and the package-lock.json and run npx cap migrate again.

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I’m having this problem so I’m keen to see if your steps help but I can’t actually see a clean build folder option in Android Studio - where is it?

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I have the same issue (after migrating to Capacitor 5). Did you solve this?