Unable to resolve class targetSdkVersion

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We use Microsoft Azure Pipelines for building Ionic apps for both ios and android. Unfortunately we encounter the following error while building the android app.

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* Where:
Build file '/home/vsts/work/1/s/android/capacitor-cordova-android-plugins/build.gradle' line: 21

* What went wrong:
Could not compile build file '/home/vsts/work/1/s/android/capacitor-cordova-android-plugins/build.gradle'.
> startup failed:
  build file '/home/vsts/work/1/s/android/capacitor-cordova-android-plugins/build.gradle': 21: unable to resolve class targetSdkVersion 
   @ line 21, column 26.
             targetSdkVersion targetSdkVersion = project.hasProperty('targetSdkVersion') ? rootProject.ext.targetSdkVersion : 29

The strange part is that several days ago it worked without any problems. Commands used to generate the APK

sudo npx jetify

sudo ionic capacitor sync android

cd android && gradle wrapper && sudo ./gradlew assembleRelease `//this is where it fails`
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2 Answers

Strange it is indeed. I have the same issue without any good explanation, but I also have a workable fix. Replacing the line

targetSdkVersion targetSdkVersion = project.hasProperty('targetSdkVersion') ? rootProject.ext.targetSdkVersion : 29

with

targetSdkVersion project.hasProperty('targetSdkVersion') ? rootProject.ext.targetSdkVersion : 29

works and it makes some more sense to me than the assignment.

Edit: apparently this is the correct fix, a recent pull request in the capacitor repository does the same: https://github.com/ionic-team/capacitor/pull/4788 or the fixing https://github.com/ionic-team/capacitor/pull/4788/commits/250fdcf03be6510dd629a91a98b5220e14d31664

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Ionic App generate some files in folder capacitor-android (if you use capacitor). In this folder, open the manifests/AndroidManisfest.xml and add android:exported="true" where you have without the android:exported. The issue is because Capacitor did not yet add this new requirement in the implementation for Android build script.

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