[CB-11833] versionCode is no longer altered by build.gradle, breaking version continuity

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Affects Version/s: 5.2.1
• Component/s: cordova-android
• Labels: easyfix

Environment

Android 6.0/Mac OS X

• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Stephen Warren
• Created: 09/Sep/16 17:31
• Updated: 23/Aug/18 06:59
• Resolved: 09/Sep/16 21:31

Description

Previous versions of the build.gradle file contained this line in the defaultConfig:

versionCode cdvVersionCode ?: Integer.parseInt("" + privateHelpers.extractIntFromManifest("versionCode") + "0")

The new Cordova version leaves out the '+ "0" ', which is breaking the continuity of version numbers in our application. When we attempt to install a new version without the edited versionCode,we receive this error:

09-09 12:20:39.795 1248-1274/? W/PackageManager: Downgrade detected: Update version code 30400 is older than current 303010
09-09 12:20:39.919 21984-21984/? D/InstallAppProgress: Installation error code: -25

New builds will inevitably be "older" than the previously built version numbers with the '0' appended to the end. Why this has not been reported until now, I don't understand. For now I fix this by editing the build.gradle file back to the way it was before this Cordova release.

Note: this is actually affecting version 5.2.2 on Android, but I was unable to choose 5.2.2 from the pulldown menu.