Cordova Error: Your ios platform does not have Api

Question

I'm trying to build a cordova ios app but not having much luck and getting strange errors.

Using this version of Cordova with older version of cordova-ios is deprecated. Upgrade to cordova-ios@4.0.0 or newer.

Error: Your ios platform does not have Api.js

The first warning says my cordov-ios version is old, which is strange as this is my output:

$ cordova --version
7.0.1



$ cordova platform version ios

Installed platforms:
  ios 4.4.0
Available platforms: 
  android ~6.2.2
  blackberry10 ~3.8.0 (deprecated)
  browser ~4.1.0
  osx ~4.0.1
  webos ~3.7.0

So I clearly have the latest versions necessary.

And then the Api.js error. What is causing this?

Error: Your ios platform does not have Api.js

Any ideas?

Answer 1

use cordova@6.0 solved the problem

Answer 2

I'm guessing that attempting to use deprecated code is the reason for seeing the error message.

It appears that one should be using the latest version of node. I also performed all my software updates for Xcode. I also connected my iPhone to my computer. Even after that (and before I updated node) I was still seeing this:

cordova platform add ios

Warning: using node version v0.12.0 which has been deprecated. Please upgrade to the latest node version available (v6.x is recommended).
Using cordova-fetch for cordova-ios@^4.4.0
Adding ios project...
Error: Your ios platform does not have Api.js

Then I decided to resolve the warning by updating node. And finally success:

sudo n latest
node --version
=> v8.0.0

cordova platform rm ios
cordova platform add ios

Using cordova-fetch for cordova-ios@~4.4.0
Adding ios project...
Creating Cordova project for the iOS platform:
    Path: platforms/ios
    Package: com.example.hello
    Name: HelloWorld
iOS project created with cordova-ios@4.4.0
Installing "cordova-plugin-whitelist" for ios
--save flag or autosave detected
Saving ios@~4.4.0 into config.xml file ...

Answer 3

I was having exactly this problem but managed to solve it by simply removing and then adding the IOS platform within my project:

cordova platform rm ios
cordova platform add ios

This seemed to fix whatever had somehow got broken when updating Cordova...

Answer 4

Has same issue with latest version of cordova (7.0.1)

Faced error while adding iOS platform and managed to resolve it by upgrading nodeJS to latest version (6.11.1)