Bug Report

Problem

Building a freshly created basic HelloWorld project, the build is failing with
No matching variant of com.android.tools.build:gradle:7.4.2 was found
What is expected to happen?
The build to work.
What does actually happen?
The build fails with No matching variant of com.android.tools.build:gradle:7.4.2 was found
Information
Command or Code
#!/bin/bash
npm i [email protected] [email protected]
PATH=$PWD/node_modules/.bin:$PATH; export PATH
cordova -v
cordova create HelloWorld com.hello.world HelloWorld
cd HelloWorld
cordova platform add android
cordova requirements
cordova build android
Environment, Platform, Device
Java JDK: installed 1.8.0

Android SDK: installed true

Android target: not installed

Command failed with ENOENT: avdmanager list target

spawn avdmanager ENOENT

Gradle: installed /usr/local/Cellar/gradle/8.4/bin/gradle

Some of requirements check failed

Checking Java JDK and Android SDK versions

ANDROID_HOME=undefined (recommended setting)

ANDROID_SDK_ROOT=/Users/adf/Library/android/sdk (DEPRECATED)

Using Android SDK: /Users/adf/Library/Android/sdk
Version information
Cordova 12.0.0

Cordova Android 12.0.1

Cordova Lib 12.0.1

macOS Ventura 13.4 (22F66)

Android Studio Artic Fox: 2020.3.1 patch 1
Android SDK details
Build Output / Error Messages
Build Output
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: This module is not used anymore, and has been replaced by @npmcli/package-json
npm WARN deprecated @npmcli/[email protected]: This functionality has been moved to @npmcli/fs
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: this library is no longer supported
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: Please upgrade  to version 7 or higher.  Older versions may use Math.random() in certain circumstances, which is known to be problematic.  See https://v8.dev/blog/math-random for details.
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: request has been deprecated, see https://github.com/request/request/issues/3142
added 555 packages, and audited 556 packages in 3s
63 packages are looking for funding

run npm fund for details
4 moderate severity vulnerabilities
To address all issues (including breaking changes), run:

npm audit fix --force
Run npm audit for details.

12.0.0 ([email protected])

Creating a new cordova project.

Using cordova-fetch for cordova-android

Adding android project...

Creating Cordova project for the Android platform:

Path: platforms/android

Package: com.hello.world

Name: HelloWorld

Activity: MainActivity

Android Target SDK: android-33

Android Compile SDK: 33

Subproject Path: CordovaLib

Subproject Path: app

Android project created with [email protected]
Requirements check results for android:

Java JDK: installed 1.8.0

Android SDK: installed true

Android target: not installed

Command failed with ENOENT: avdmanager list target

spawn avdmanager ENOENT

Gradle: installed /usr/local/Cellar/gradle/8.4/bin/gradle

Some of requirements check failed

Checking Java JDK and Android SDK versions

ANDROID_HOME=undefined (recommended setting)

ANDROID_SDK_ROOT=/Users/xxx/Library/android/sdk (DEPRECATED)

Using Android SDK: /Users/xxx/Library/Android/sdk
Deprecated Gradle features were used in this build, making it incompatible with Gradle 9.0.
You can use '--warning-mode all' to show the individual deprecation warnings and determine if they come from your own scripts or plugins.
For more on this, please refer to https://docs.gradle.org/8.4/userguide/command_line_interface.html#sec:command_line_warnings in the Gradle documentation.
BUILD SUCCESSFUL in 884ms

1 actionable task: 1 executed

Subproject Path: CordovaLib

Subproject Path: app
FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.
What went wrong:

A problem occurred configuring root project 'HelloWorld'.
Could not resolve all files for configuration ':classpath'.

Could not resolve com.android.tools.build:gradle:7.4.2.

Required by:

project :

> No matching variant of com.android.tools.build:gradle:7.4.2 was found. The consumer was configured to find a runtime of a library compatible with Java 8, packaged as a jar, and its dependencies declared externally, as well as attribute 'org.gradle.plugin.api-version' with value '7.6' but:

- Variant 'apiElements' capability com.android.tools.build:gradle:7.4.2 declares a library, packaged as a jar, and its dependencies declared externally:

- Incompatible because this component declares an API of a component compatible with Java 11 and the consumer needed a runtime of a component compatible with Java 8

- Other compatible attribute:

- Doesn't say anything about org.gradle.plugin.api-version (required '7.6')

- Variant 'javadocElements' capability com.android.tools.build:gradle:7.4.2 declares a runtime of a component, and its dependencies declared externally:

- Incompatible because this component declares documentation and the consumer needed a library

- Other compatible attributes:

- Doesn't say anything about its target Java version (required compatibility with Java 8)

- Doesn't say anything about its elements (required them packaged as a jar)

- Doesn't say anything about org.gradle.plugin.api-version (required '7.6')

- Variant 'runtimeElements' capability com.android.tools.build:gradle:7.4.2 declares a runtime of a library, packaged as a jar, and its dependencies declared externally:

- Incompatible because this component declares a component compatible with Java 11 and the consumer needed a component compatible with Java 8

- Other compatible attribute:

- Doesn't say anything about org.gradle.plugin.api-version (required '7.6')

- Variant 'sourcesElements' capability com.android.tools.build:gradle:7.4.2 declares a runtime of a component, and its dependencies declared externally:

- Incompatible because this component declares documentation and the consumer needed a library

- Other compatible attributes:

- Doesn't say anything about its target Java version (required compatibility with Java 8)

- Doesn't say anything about its elements (required them packaged as a jar)

- Doesn't say anything about org.gradle.plugin.api-version (required '7.6')
Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace.

Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output.

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Get more help at https://help.gradle.org
Deprecated Gradle features were used in this build, making it incompatible with Gradle 8.0.
You can use '--warning-mode all' to show the individual deprecation warnings and determine if they come from your own scripts or plugins.
See https://docs.gradle.org/7.6/userguide/command_line_interface.html#sec:command_line_warnings
BUILD FAILED in 873ms

Command failed with exit code 1: /Users/xxx/Sites/RMC2/cordova2/HelloWorld/platforms/android/gradlew -b /Users/xxx/Sites/RMC2/cordova2/HelloWorld/platforms/android/build.gradle cdvBuildDebug
Checklist
 I searched for existing GitHub issues
 I updated all Cordova tooling to most recent version
 I included all the necessary information above