Why Ionic, Cordova, Angular2 generates long file names?

Ionic Framework ionic-v3
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I’m developing an app, using ionic2. Cannot copy app folder to a sub folder due to long file names in this directory:

\platforms\android\build\tmp\expandedArchives\classes.jar_dx4xwqv13b0utt214l22wsbbs\com\google\protobuf

One of the file names is:

java_com_google_android_gmscore_dev_policy_sets__3p_monolithic_raw_pre_munge_rollup_67e347e9GeneratedExtensionRegistryLite$Loader.class

How can I prevent this?

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You can’t.

Delete the platforms directory and run ionic cordova prepare after copying the folder. This should regenerate everything in it.

3

Thanks, that makes perfect sense. The only issue now is I cannot load the project to visual studio, however VSCode does not complain.