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Getting Fatal error while building the Visual-studio Cordova application in release mode.

I'm using Visual-studio 2017 and the Cordova tool-set version - 6.3.1

1>MSBUILD : cordova-build error : [Fatal Error] :3:214: The value of attribute "name" associated with an element type "item" must not contain the '<' character.
1>MSBUILD : cordova-build error : Could not read D:\Android\Sdk\platform-tools\api\annotations.zip
1>MSBUILD : cordova-build error : java.io.IOException: Could not parse XML from android/accounts/annotations.xml
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I solved this error by simply removing the Android platform directory, then build, clean the project and build again.

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    As stupid as it sounds, this also worked for me. I tried multiple things so I don't remember if cordova clean android was enough or if I had to remove android platform and add it again.
    – Silviu Burcea
    Commented Mar 25, 2021 at 9:26

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