Your system does not meet the requirements to create android projects: undefined

Cordova platform add android errors with

Your system does not meet the requirements to create android projects: undefined

Did you remember to

chown -R YOURUSERNAMEHERE /usr/local/lib/node\_modules/cordova

You can check with..

ls -lsh /usr/local/lib/node\_modules/cordova

You should see your username, not root..

If so.. Let’s do a quick update of Cordova:

cordova -v # review the version you are at npm update cordova cordova -v # review the new version

Let’s make sure android works and the path is set to the android binary:

android

This brings up the Android SDK Manager.

Test an emulator by hitting up: Tools > Manage AVDS, creating an image then hit Start. If your Android emulator works then continue, else something is up with your ADT/SDK deployment

Open up a CLI, type:

export | grep PATH

Make sure your Android SDK platform-tools and tools folders are available in the PATH variable.

Going okay? Let’s update the Android SDK

android update sdk

Now try visit your cordova app folder and try

cordova platform add android

Still no luck? Try using the master2 branch of the cordova-cli repo *Warning, this is dangerous.

cd ~ git://github.com/apache/cordova-cli.git cd ~/cordova-cli git checkout master2 sudo npm install -g exit cordova -v

The above should output a new cordova version #