I was trying to deploy to device for debug.
I tried to do ionic cordova prepare android and then ionic cordova run android in an ionic4 project directory. I had this error
My phone is Android 6
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20 actionable tasks: 1 executed, 19 up-to-date
BUILD FAILED in 1m 3s
c:\wamp64\www\ionicApps\myApp\platforms\android\gradlew: Command failed with ex
it code 1 Error output:
FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.
* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':app:mergeDebugResources'.
> java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: com.android.builder.internal.aapt.v2.
Aapt2InternalException: AAPT2 aapt2-3.3.0-5013011-windows Daemon #2: Daemon star
tup failed
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BUILD FAILED in 1m 3s
[ERROR] An error occurred while running subprocess cordova.
cordova.cmd build android --device exited with exit code 1.
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Please help…
The thing that I noticed is
c:\wamp64\www\ionicApps\myApp\platforms\android**gradlew:**<= this folder doesn’t even exist in my project