Creating a plugin using an existing sdk

Ionic Native
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I know this isn’t a specific ionic native issue as i am only making a cordova plugin at the moment, but i am currently at a loss and looking for help from anywhere, so if anyone has any information or can point me in the right direction, that would be very helpful.

So I have an ionic 3 application that i need to add an android sdk to. there is no plugin for it so I have to create a cordova plugin for it. I tried for a few days now, and i can get the plugin to install and build, error free, but calling the plugin methods don’t seem to do anything. I can get the js file of the plugin to output console.logs but the java file doesn’t seem to be running at all. this is my ionic info for my project. I have zero experience with java code or cordova plugin development so i’ve hit a major roadblock as i cannot figure out why the java code is not being called. can anyone see what i am doing wrong?
Ionic:

ionic (Ionic CLI) : 4.4.0 (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/ionic)
Ionic Framework : ionic-angular 3.9.2
@ionic/app-scripts : 3.2.0

Cordova:

cordova (Cordova CLI) : 8.1.2 (cordova-lib@8.1.1)
Cordova Platforms : android 7.1.4, ios 4.5.5
Cordova Plugins : cordova-plugin-ionic-webview 1.2.1, (and 31 other plugins)

System:

ios-deploy : 1.9.4
NodeJS : v10.7.0 (/usr/local/bin/node)
npm : 6.4.1
OS : macOS High Sierra
Xcode : Xcode 10.1 Build version 10B61

This is my Plugin.xml

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<plugin id="cordova-plugin-chirp"
  version="0.1.0"
  xmlns="http://apache.org/cordova/ns/plugins/1.0"
  xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
  <name>chirp</name>
  <js-module name="chirp" src="www/chirp.js">
    <clobbers target="cordova.plugins.chirp" />
  </js-module>
  <platform name="ios">
    <config-file parent="/*" target="config.xml">
      <feature name="chirp">
        <param name="ios-package" value="chirp" />
      </feature>
    </config-file>
    <header-file src="src/ios/chirp.h" />
    <source-file src="src/ios/chirp.m" />
  </platform>
  <platform name="android">
    <source-file src="src/android/chirp.java" target-dir="src/org/apache/cordova/plugin/chirp" />
    <source-file framework="true" src="src/android/libs/chirp-connect-release.aar" target-dir="libs"/>
    <!-- <framework src="src/android/chirp.gradle" custom="true" type="gradleReference" /> -->
    <config-file parent="/*" target="res/xml/config.xml">
      <feature name="chirp">
        <param name="android-package" value="org.apache.cordova.plugin.chirp" />
      </feature>
    </config-file>
    <config-file parent="/*" target="AndroidManifest.xml">
      <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.MODIFY_AUDIO_SETTINGS" />
      <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.RECORD_AUDIO" />
      <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />
      <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE" />
    </config-file>
  </platform>
</plugin>

This is my js file. chirp.js:

var exec = require('cordova/exec');

var chirp ={
  getPermissions:function(message){
    console.log(message);
    exec(null, null, 'Chirp', 'getPermissions', [message]);
  },
  start:function(message){
    console.log(message);
    exec(null, null, 'Chirp', 'start', [message]);
  },
  send:function(message){
    console.log(message);
    exec(null, null, 'Chirp', 'send', [message]);
  }
};

module.exports = chirp

This is my gradle file. chirp.gradle:

repositories {
  jcenter()
  flatDir {
    dirs 'libs'
  }
}

dependencies {
   compile(name:'chirp-connect-release', ext:'aar')
}

android {
    packagingOptions {
        exclude 'META-INF/NOTICE'
        exclude 'META-INF/LICENSE'
    }
}

and this is my java file. chirp.java:

package com.chirp.cordova.plugin;

import android.content.Context;
import android.content.pm.PackageManager;
import android.Manifest;

import org.apache.cordova.CordovaPlugin;
import org.apache.cordova.CallbackContext;
import org.apache.cordova.CordovaInterface;
import org.apache.cordova.CordovaWebView;
import org.apache.cordova.LOG;
import org.apache.cordova.CordovaArgs;
import org.apache.cordova.PluginResult;
import org.apache.cordova.PermissionHelper;


import org.json.JSONArray;
import org.json.JSONException;
import org.json.JSONObject;

import io.chirp.connect.ChirpConnect;
import io.chirp.connect.interfaces.ConnectEventListener;
import io.chirp.connect.interfaces.ConnectSetConfigListener;
import io.chirp.connect.models.ChirpError;
import io.chirp.connect.models.ConnectState;

/**
 * This class echoes a string called from JavaScript.
 */
public class chirp extends CordovaPlugin {

    private ChirpConnect chirpConnect;
    private Context context;
    CallbackContext callbackC;
    String TAG = "ChirpPlugin";

    String [] permissions = {Manifest.permission.MODIFY_AUDIO_SETTINGS, Manifest.permission.RECORD_AUDIO, Manifest.permission.INTERNET, Manifest.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE};

    public static final int SEARCH_REQ_CODE = 0;
    public static final int SAVE_REQ_CODE = 1;
    public static final int REMOVE_REQ_CODE = 2;
    public static final int PICK_REQ_CODE = 3;

    public String executeArgs = "";

    String KEY = "myKey";
    String SECRET = "mySecret";
    String CONFIG = "myConfig";

    @Override
    public boolean execute(String action, JSONArray args, CallbackContext callbackContext) throws JSONException {
      callbackC = callbackContext;
        LOG.d(TAG, "We are entering execute");
        if (action.equals("start")){
          if(hasPermission()){
            String message = args.getString(0);
            executeArgs = message;
            // start(message);
            callbackContext.success();
            return true;
          } else {
            PermissionHelper.requestPermissions(this, 0, permissions);
          }
        } else if (action.equals("send")){
          String message = args.getString(0);
          this.send(message);
          callbackContext.success();
          return true;
        }
        return false;
    };

    public chirp(Context context) {
        this.context = context;
    };

    @Override
    public void initialize(CordovaInterface cordova, CordovaWebView webView) {
      super.initialize(cordova, webView);
        ChirpConnect chirpConnect = new ChirpConnect(context, KEY, SECRET);
        chirpConnect.setConfigFromNetwork(new ConnectSetConfigListener(){
          @Override
          public void onSuccess(){
            chirpConnect.setListener(connectEventListener);
            LOG.i("setConfig", "Config successfully set");
          }
          @Override
          public void onError(ChirpError setConfigError){
            LOG.e("setConfigError", setConfigError.getMessage());
          }
        });
    };

    ConnectEventListener connectEventListener = new ConnectEventListener() {

        @Override
        public void onSending(byte[] payload, byte channel) {
          LOG.v("chirpConnectDemoApp", "This is called when a payload is being sent " + payload + " on channel: " + channel);
        }

        @Override
        public void onSent(byte[] payload, byte channel) {
          LOG.v("chirpConnectDemoApp", "This is called when a payload has been sent " + payload  + " on channel: " + channel);
        }

        @Override
        public void onReceiving(byte channel) {
          LOG.v("chirpConnectDemoApp", "This is called when the SDK is expecting a payload to be received on channel: " + channel);
        }

        @Override
        public void onReceived(byte[] payload, byte channel) {
          LOG.v("chirpConnectDemoApp", "This is called when a payload has been received " + payload  + " on channel: " + channel);
        }

        @Override
        public void onStateChanged(byte oldState, byte newState) {
          LOG.v("chirpConnectDemoApp", "This is called when the SDK state has changed " + oldState + " -> " + newState);
        }

        @Override
        public void onSystemVolumeChanged(int old, int current) {
          LOG.d("chirpConnectDemoApp", "This is called when the Android system volume has changed " + old + " -> " + current);
        }
    };

    private void start(String message) {
        if (message != null && message.length() > 0) {
            chirpConnect.start();

        }
    };


    private void send(String message) {
        if (message != null && message.length() > 0) {
            long maxLength = chirpConnect.getMaxPayloadLength();
            byte[] payload = chirpConnect.randomPayload(maxLength);
            chirpConnect.send(payload);
        }
    };

    public boolean hasPermission() {
        for(String p : permissions)
        {
            if(!PermissionHelper.hasPermission(this, p))
            {
                return false;
            }
        }
        return true;
    }

    public void requestPermissions(int requestCode)
    {
        PermissionHelper.requestPermissions(this, requestCode, permissions);
    }
}