Possible bug in Cordova Android 8.0.0

Installing "cordova-plugin-whitelist" for android This plugin is only applicable for versions of cordova-android greater than 4.0. If you have a previous platform version, you do *not* need this Plugin since the whitelist will be built in. Source and destination cannot be the same.

Hello Chen,

The whitelist plugin can be good for compatibility reasons: finally that is not a problem to get our app's APK. However, the next console message is "Source and destination cannot be the same.", which, don't provide too much information about the possible error...

If possible, paste here the entire console log and post also your Cordova version. You can also search in Google (for example) for the error message (if is not the referred above) plus the "Apache Cordova" words: this commonly offers information about how to solve many errors, since the Apache Cordova community exceeds this support forum.

Hello Chen,

If you copy here the console log message we will try to help you too! You can remove some possible private information if you wanted: or just look if some error message is provided... in addition to the "Source and destination must not be the same"...

However, if certainly the console ends with that message... that is the message that we must try to search plus the "Apache Cordova" words, so search something like "Source and destination must not be the same Apache Cordova".

Commonly we find the solution in that way... as I refer above, the Apache Cordova community is great and exceeds this forum, of course. So that's what I can say right now...

Created by DecSoft's App Builder v2019.28 More information at https://www.decsoftutils.com/ Using cordova-fetch for cordova-android@^8.0.0 Platform android already added. Plugin "cordova-plugin-whitelist" already installed on android. Plugin "cordova-plugin-whitelist" already installed on ios. Plugin "cordova-plugin-network-information" already installed on android. Plugin "cordova-plugin-network-information" already installed on ios. Plugin "cordova-plugin-geolocation" already installed on android. Plugin "cordova-plugin-geolocation" already installed on ios. Plugin "cordova-plugin-camera" already installed on android. Plugin "cordova-plugin-camera" already installed on ios. Plugin "cordova-plugin-media-capture" already installed on android. Plugin "cordova-plugin-media-capture" already installed on ios. Plugin "cordova-plugin-splashscreen" already installed on android. Plugin "cordova-plugin-splashscreen" already installed on ios. Source and destination must not be the same. Please press any key to continue. . .

Hello Chen,

So certainly the console error message is quite rare, in my experience: Cordova produces error messages too much descriptives, commonly more than one message, because a "trace of the error" is included. Maybe this can be a good answer to read... the issue is quite recent, and, exactly what you get and with the Cordova Android version that you use too.

Apparently it's a random bug (don't occur here in my computer with the same Cordova Android version) in Cordova Android 8.0.0, and, the proposed solution is to downgrade Cordova Android. What you can do is to edit the BAT file that you are using and replace the below:

Of course it's not the best solution, so, in your place I will continue investigating about that "random" problem in Apache Cordova... maybe there is another better solution, since the above mean that you must edit the BAT file if change. Anyway, try to edit the BAT file at least one time... so you can see if the app can be compiled with that Cordova Android version...