Could not find org.apache.cordova:framework:7.0.0

[joshstrange]

Bug Report

You can no longer install any version of the cordova framework <10

Capacitor Version

💊   Capacitor Doctor  💊

Latest Dependencies:

  @capacitor/cli: 5.0.5
  @capacitor/core: 5.0.5
  @capacitor/android: 5.0.5
  @capacitor/electron: 5.0.5
  @capacitor/ios: 5.0.5

Installed Dependencies:

  @capacitor/cli 2.5.0
  @capacitor/core 2.5.0
  @capacitor/ios 2.5.0
  @capacitor/android 2.5.0
  @capacitor/electron not installed

[success] Android looking great! 👌
  Found 2 Capacitor plugins for ios:
    cordova-open-native-settings (1.5.5)
    cordova-plugin-safariviewcontroller (2.0.0)
[success] iOS looking great! 👌

Platform(s)

Android

Current Behavior

JFrog has broken it's promise to keep jcenter up "indefinitely".

UPDATE 4/27/2021: We listened to the community and will keep JCenter as a read-only repository indefinitely. Our customers and the community can continue to rely on JCenter as a reliable mirror for Java packages.

They are currently just redirecting to maven central which does not have anything before version 10

Expected Behavior

Can build Capacitor v2 apps

Code Reproduction

N/A

Other Technical Details

N/A

Additional Context

This issue is not for ionic-team/capacitor to do anything, but rather as a way for the community to find information when they search for this issue in their builds. Also I'd love if anyone has any workaround (other than upgrading, we are investigating that now). I have the .pom and .aar files for 7.0.0 but I'm unable to get them to work (by adding them to the source).

See also this same discussion on apache/cordova-android

[jcesarmobile]

The incident has been resolved.

But I would encourage any users still using an old Capacitor version to migrate to Capacitor 5 and stop using jcenter

[tomchiverton]

How has this been resolved ? What do I need to do to update ?

[Fulvia1989]

The incident was one year ago, now the problem is that jCenter has been shut down definetly.
If you want to update to Capacitor 5, I guess you have to manually update the dependecies in your project (maybe following a step-by-step a guide from somewhere).
If you cannot update (like me)...I guess the only hope is to find a copy of the .aar file and make it work somehow...

[tomchiverton]

I believe I was able to fix this by doing the following. It's at least past enough Google checks to reach our internal testers after a build today on https://dashboard.ionicframework.com/

We're only using some very basic integrations, so YMMV, and also the old build image Linux - 2022.10, as we're only doing this build to bump the target version before Google kick us out, and that's the version that last worked a year ago.

diff --git a/android/build.gradle b/android/build.gradle
index ad085c34555a1bd2220f39aa13c87c5ab568186d..6bb35717f6e8a3bb4a930500d895d7f2662bd8bf 100644
--- a/android/build.gradle
+++ b/android/build.gradle
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ buildscript {
     
     repositories {
         google()
-        jcenter()
+        mavenCentral()
     }
     dependencies {
         classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:4.2.1'
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ apply from: "variables.gradle"
 allprojects {
     repositories {
         google()
-        jcenter()
+        mavenCentral()
     }
 }
 
diff --git a/android/variables.gradle b/android/variables.gradle
index 270dbb0e8c9d9cb2f713ce5e7c2c0e05fc5d0737..644753a5582816a64ef70d659f200210398270a4 100644
--- a/android/variables.gradle
+++ b/android/variables.gradle
@@ -10,5 +10,5 @@ ext {
     junitVersion = '4.13.1'
     androidxJunitVersion = '1.1.2'
     androidxEspressoCoreVersion = '3.3.0'
-    cordovaAndroidVersion = '7.0.0'
+    cordovaAndroidVersion = '10.1.1'
 }

[Fulvia1989]

My build failed today for the same reason.

[jcesarmobile]

JCenter was Sunset on August 15th, 2024
https://jfrog.com/blog/jcenter-sunset/

You should update to Capacitor 6, or at least to a version that doesn't use jcenter

[Fulvia1989]

Easier said than done. I cannot update Capacitor at the moment. Is there an alternative?

[sagadav]

I ran into this problem on a project with quasar js, and just changing the version didn't help me. It turned out that I use the second version of capacitor (in src-capacitor), so

cd src-capacitor
npm i -D @capacitor/cli@latest-5
npx cap migrate

Maybe this will help someone not to waste a lot of time.

[LukeGrave]

Hi @joshstrange and everyone else,

Is someone of you still in possession of the cordova framework 7.0.0 .pom and .aar files and is it possible to get a copy of it?

Thanks in advance,
Luke

[Fulvia1989]

I do have a copy of the .aar file that I managed to retrieve from an older project.
I'm keeping it in one of my repos --> cordova-framework-7.

I don't have the .pom file thou, sorry..

Hope this helps anyway

[amethystdev1]

In case anyone is looking for a solution

• Download .pom, .aar from https://artifactory.appodeal.com/appodeal-public/org/apache/cordova/framework/7.0.0/
  In case link above stops working, I made a backup at https://github.com/amethystdev1/apache-cordova-framework-v7/

• Run mkdir -p ~/.m2/repository/org/apache/cordova/framework/7.0.0

• Copy both .aar and .pom files to the 7.0.0 directory

• Create or modify ~/.gradle/init.gradle to contain:

allprojects {
    repositories {
        google()
        mavenCentral()
        maven {
            url uri("${System.properties['user.home']}/.m2/repository")
        }
    }
}

• Refresh Android studio project by clicking on the build error and you're ready to go.

[ford152]

thank you!