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Here's an interesting quirk when using the Ionic framework (version 1.2.13) with Cordova PhoneGap (version 4.1.2) to create an Android App build. You run the following command:

ionic build --release android

And once the build process has successfully completed the CLI displays the following output:

BUILD SUCCESSFUL
Total time: 8 seconds
Built the following apk(s):
    /Path-to-your-project/platforms/android/ant-build/CordovaApp-release-unsigned.apk

The only problem? The built apk file is named as CordovaApp and NOT as the name of your project.

Resolving this involves a few steps to work through...

Here's an interesting 'gotcha' when developing Android Apps with Cordova PhoneGap and Ionic Framework...

There you are ready to publish your PhoneGap App to your Android Handset with the following command:

cordova run android --device

Or, if you're using the Ionic framework CLI instead:

ionic run android

Only to be presented with the following error message AFTER being informed that the build was successful:

emulator: ERROR: x86 emulation currently requires hardware acceleration!
Please ensure Intel HAXM is properly installed and usable.
CPU acceleration status: HAX is not installed on this machine (/dev/HAX is missing).

Resolving this is, thankfully, quite simple...

Ready to publish your PhoneGap App to your Android handset for testing? Developing on a Mac and struggling to get the handset registering on your machine?  Read on...

Developing an Android App on Mac OS X? Using the Ionic framework from the command line to trigger the Android Emulator? Seeing the following error returned?

ERROR Unable to load VM from snapshot

Thankfully the fix for this error is quite simple...

There you are ready to build your Android project - Cordova PhoneGap, Ionic Framework, Ant and the Android SDK are all successfully installed and configured correctly - you've opened up your command line and typed out the following instruction:

ionic build android

You press Enter and wait for the command to run only to be greeted with a failed build message akin to the following...