Please let me know if anyone else has experienced this and has fixed it.
I have an app that builds release on my local machine just fine. I push the app to ionic pro, and it builds just fine there. Then I go to package it. This is where the problem lies. It builds the android native package just fine all the way up to
:app:compileReleaseJavaWithJavac FAILED
It keeps telling me that
error: cannot find symbol
I did a LOT of searching and everything I found said that this was because of using an older google play service version than is required by the app or plugin. The problem compounds further with the unwillingness of the author of one my plugins being less than helpful and requiring that the plugin HAS to use 11.8.+
Anyone come across this while using the cordova-plugin-googlemaps?