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When running a meteor.js app via meteor run --verbose android I get this error:

Failed to install 'cordova-plugin-whitelist':Cannot find plugin.xml
for plugin "cordova-plugin-whitelist". Please try adding it again.

I've tried the fix suggested here (installed cordova plugin via add cordova-plugin-whitelist in the folder .meteor/local/cordova-build) and this got the emulator started but then this error appeared: 

Execution failed for task ':processDebugResources'.
com.android.ide.common.process.ProcessException: Failed to execute aapt

I found some information about this one on the issues gitHub site for meteor, but I'm at a loss now for what to do.

These errors (not surprisingly) also cause meteor-up deployment to fail. I tried adding buildOptions: { "serverOnly": true } to the mup.json file per the mup docs but this failed to stop meteor from building the cordova architecture. Is there is a build setting or flag for mup deploy or meteor build so that it doesn't try to build the web.cordova architecture at all?

ManInTheArena
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  • Remove the android platform from your project, that should do it – Mikkel Aug 29 '17 at 22:03
  • I tried that already. It now fails with a buffer error for a node module that's necessary for the application to work properly: `buffer.js:69 throw new Error( ^ Error: If encoding is specified then the first argument must be a string at new Buffer (buffer.js:69:13) at Readable. (~/meteor-up/node_modules/archiver/lib/util/index.js:32:15) at emitNone (events.js:91:20) at Readable.emit (events.js:185:7) at endReadableNT (_stream_readable.js:975:12) at _combinedTickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:74:11)` – ManInTheArena Aug 29 '17 at 22:12
  • You might need to clear out meteor's build area as well, I think `rm -rf .meteor/local/cordova-build` or you can even `rm -rf .meteor/local`. You can do an npm rebuild as well, or `rm -rf node_modules && npm install` – Mikkel Aug 29 '17 at 22:15
  • Fixed it. All errors appear to be linked to the original issue... thanks for the suggestions... I added `cordova-plugin-whitelist@1.0.0` to `.meteor/cordova-plugins` file and this allowed it to build with this warning: `WARNING: Attempting to install plugin cordova-plugin-whitelist@1.0.0, but it should have a minimum version of 1.3.0 to ensure compatibility....` – ManInTheArena Aug 31 '17 at 16:59

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