From 4fc50392e586e08ff0a63748a21d95b5518d4b8c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: jcesarmobile <jcesarmobile@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2020 11:40:21 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] feat(android): Make variables.gradle file not mandatory
 (#2600)

---
 capacitor-cordova-android-plugins/build.gradle | 4 ++++
 cli/src/android/update.ts                      | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/capacitor-cordova-android-plugins/build.gradle b/capacitor-cordova-android-plugins/build.gradle
index 16cee0c2e1..9d81326d30 100644
--- a/capacitor-cordova-android-plugins/build.gradle
+++ b/capacitor-cordova-android-plugins/build.gradle
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+ext {
+    cordovaAndroidVersion =  project.hasProperty('cordovaAndroidVersion') ? rootProject.ext.cordovaAndroidVersion : '7.0.0'
+}
+
 buildscript {
     repositories {
         google()
diff --git a/cli/src/android/update.ts b/cli/src/android/update.ts
index 0a7d24b3d1..fa270377c8 100644
--- a/cli/src/android/update.ts
+++ b/cli/src/android/update.ts
@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ export async function handleCordovaPluginsGradle(config: Config,  cordovaPlugins
   await writeFileAsync(pluginsGradlePath, buildGradle);
   const cordovaVariables = `// DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE! IT IS GENERATED EACH TIME "capacitor update" IS RUN
 ext {
-  cdvMinSdkVersion = rootProject.ext.minSdkVersion
+  cdvMinSdkVersion = project.hasProperty('minSdkVersion') ? rootProject.ext.minSdkVersion : ${config.android.minVersion}
   // Plugin gradle extensions can append to this to have code run at the end.
   cdvPluginPostBuildExtras = []
 }`;