Snapshot generation broken? Error: android is not defined

[jerbob92]

Environment

• CLI: 6.7.8
• Cross-platform modules: 6.5.8
• Android Runtime: 6.5.1
• iOS Runtime (if applicable): 6.5.1
• Plugin(s): -

Describe the bug Snapshot generation seems broken because it can't seem to find the android types anymore, I'm getting the error JavaScript execution error: ReferenceError: android is not defined

When checking the line it errors on, it's just a reference to an Android class: }(android.text.style.MetricAffectingSpan));

To Reproduce Upgrade runtimes to 6.5.1, upgrade CLI to 6.7.8 and cross platform to 6.5.8, try to build the app with --env.snapshot and --env.compileSnapshot

Expected behavior The app should build and result into APK's.

Sample project Don't have a sample app only for this bug, but I could also reproduce on a demo of a public plugin of mine: https://github.com/klippa-app/nativescript-http Go into demo-angular and upgrade everything mentioned in To Reproduce, then try to build with snapshots.

[mapo80]

I've same issue, here you can find more informations: https://github.com/NativeScript/NativeScript/issues/8631

Hope that you'll find how to solve!

[farfromrefug]

@mapo80 i can confirm you correctly pin pointed the issue! It needs a fix on N side

[NathanaelA]

This was fixed in the last NativeScript release that was done today.