Android Builds failing. Issue occurred within last 45 minutes

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Hi,
I was working on my project this morning and the build worked fine about 50 minutes ago.
10 minutes later it’s stopped working (android only)

What I’ve done since : -

I’ve built for IOS - no problem at all.

I’ve tried building an older project which had no previous issues - same fail on Android build.

I’ve now tried upgrading to the new beta version : no change - still the same error.

Comparing last ‘success’ versus last ‘failure’ in terms of Voltbuilder logs : -

Success : -
2026-09-03 10:21:33,820 - Output: cordova-custom-config: Loaded module dependencies
cordova-custom-config: Running restoreBackups.js
cordova-custom-config: Skipping auto-restore of config file backup(s)
cordova-custom-config: Loaded module dependencies
cordova-custom-config: Running applyCustomConfig.js
DEBUG: Aborting applyCustomConfig.js because current hook ‘before_prepare’ is not configured hook ‘after_prepare’
cordova-custom-config: Finished applying platform config
The “” tags were detected and are no longer supported. Please migrate to the “preference” tag “AndroidWindowSplashScreenAnimatedIcon”.
cordova-custom-config: Loaded module dependencies
cordova-custom-config: Running applyCustomConfig.js

Failure : -
2026-09-03 11:03:05,699 - Output: e[32mcordova-custom-config: Loaded module dependenciese[39m
e[32mcordova-custom-config: Running restoreBackups.jse[39m
e[32mcordova-custom-config: Could not find iOS platform project - skipping restoree[39m

2026-09-03 11:03:05,700 - App built, but output not found: app-debug.apk)
This may be caused by an out of date engine spec in config.xml
2026-09-03 11:03:05,700 - Build failed 028640a6-1775-4556-824f-8e505d92b7f8

For whatever reason the fail is referring to "Could not find iOS platform project " .

Does the system now need me to change project settings apart from : -

platform : android

release : debug

?

Your urgent help would be most appreciated!

Thanks,

Neil

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UPDATE

I’ve been stripping back plugins to try and see if it’s one of them that is causing the issue…

I’ve now had success building to android, but i need to start putting the plugins back in to find the guilty party..

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Ok, so this seems to be the problem plugin (as of the last few hours)

phonegap-plugin-barcodescanner-android12

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ok, final update!

cronapp-cordova-plugin-barcodescanner

seems to work happily alongside

cordova-plugin-camera

This new (to me ) barcodescanner plugin will replace that ‘android12’ version which had started to clash with the standard camera plugin.

Drama over for now!

P.S. NOPE - it’s still failing with my ‘big config.xml’ so i need to research why .

(i had tested against the basic barcode scan sample app when adding the cordova camera plugin and that worked fine.)

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looks like the issue is a clash between

cordova-plugin-camera-preview

and

cronapp-cordova-plugin-barcodescanner (and / or other barcode plugins)