[CB-13831] Update `android-versions` npm dependency to support Android API 27.

• Type: Task
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Trivial
• Resolution: Fixed
• Component/s: cordova-android
• Flags: Patch
• Assignee: Joey Robert Bowser
• Reporter: Jesse Rosenberger
• Created: 25/Jan/18 17:46
• Updated: 26/Jan/18 16:21
• Resolved: 26/Jan/18 16:21

Description

The current version of cordova-android currently bundles (via package.json's bundledDependencies attribute) a version of the android-versions npm which doesn't support Android SDK level 27, which was officially released in the last month.

This omission prevents the use of cordova run android --emulator -d if API level 27 is installed, which is the default SDK for a new installation of Android Studio. It also contributed to the error seen in CB-13571, though that will prevent the same error from occurring in the future if an additional SDK is released and not included in android-versions.

While the latest version of android-versions (currently 1.3.0) does support level 27 (now, thanks to this recent commit), the fact that it is a so-called "bundled dependency" means the current version (1.2.1) is baked into the cordova-android installation tarball, and won't automatically respect the caret version range (`^1.2.1`) listed in cordova-android`s package.json, despite the lack of a package-lock.json (or otherwise).

Bumping the version of android-versions in cordova-android's package.json to 1.3.0 will enable the emulator to work with API level 27 (even if there could be other reasons that API level 27 causes problems).

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #430