I saw similar issues yesterday when trying to integrate instabug, which had updated its SDK to use 23 android support library. I can confirm editing build.gradle in android studio:
/* compileSdkVersion cdvCompileSdkVersion
buildToolsVersion cdvBuildToolsVersion
*/
compileSdkVersion 23
buildToolsVersion "23.0.1"
and then following Android Studios prompts to update build tools was a “quick fix” to get a good build.
Note: I always integrate instabug afterwards in Android Studio, but this could help people that are seeing the latest versions of plugins expecting 23 as the compile environment.
I’m hoping to find that I can set an environment variable that ionic/cordova will pick up so I don’t have to set compileSdkVersion and buildToolsVersion manually in build.gradle
Cheers