Android build fails with Cannot get property 'dependencies' on null object

[dlcole]

I created a new JavaScript Hello World project, added the Android platform, and built the project successfully.

I ran tns plugin add nativescript-contacts and now the build fails with these messages:

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* Where:
Build file '/Users/david/Documents/NativeScriptProjects/tester/platforms/tempPlugin/nativescript_contacts/build.gradle' line: 40

* What went wrong:
A problem occurred evaluating root project 'nativescript_contacts'.
> Cannot get property 'dependencies' on null object

The problem is that nativescript-contacts is not being added to the file /platforms/android/dependencies.json. Here's the complete file:

[
    {
        "name": "@nativescript/core",
        "directory": "../../node_modules/@nativescript/core",
        "dependencies": []
    },
    {
        "name": "@nativescript/theme",
        "directory": "../../node_modules/@nativescript/theme",
        "dependencies": []
    }
]

and here's package.json, from which dependencies.json is presumably built:

  "name": "tester",
  "main": "app/app.js",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "private": true,
  "dependencies": {
    "@nativescript/core": "~8.2.0",
    "@nativescript/theme": "~3.0.2",
    "nativescript-contacts": "^1.6.4"
  },
  "devDependencies": {
    "@nativescript/android": "8.2.2",
    "@nativescript/webpack": "~5.0.6"
  }
}

Has anyone else hit this problem, or have any insights as to why the plugin is missing from dependencies.json? This wasn't a problem until recently, when I upgraded NS to 8.2 because Xcode was updated unexpectedly and introduced build errors on iOS. All the other plugins in my main project are included in dependencies.json and compile OK.

[tqhsonoma]

dlcole, I got the same problem and found that @nativescript/contacts is a "drop in" replacement for this plugin. Works well for both Android and IOD. Actually, it's the exact same code base. Good luck!

[dlcole]

@tqhsonoma - thanks so much! I'll check this out.