The strange thing is that the docker base implied it is cordova 5.1.1, but by default, cordova 4.0.2 is used.

$ cordova="docker run -it --rm --privileged -v /dev/bus/usb:/dev/bus/usb -v $PWD:/src cordova cordova"
$ $cordova platform add [email protected]
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/cordova-android
npm http 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/cordova-android
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/cordova-android
npm http 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/cordova-android
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/cordova-android/-/cordova-android-5.1.1.tgz
npm http 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/cordova-android/-/cordova-android-5.1.1.tgz
Adding android project...
module.js:338
    throw err;
          ^
Error: Cannot find module 'underscore'
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:336:15)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:278:25)
    at Module.require (module.js:365:17)
    at require (module.js:384:17)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/root/.cordova/lib/npm_cache/cordova-android/5.1.1/package/node_modules/cordova-common/src/superspawn.js:23:9)
    at Module._compile (module.js:460:26)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:478:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:355:32)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:310:12)
    at Module.require (module.js:365:17)
Error: /root/.cordova/lib/npm_cache/cordova-android/5.1.1/package/bin/create: Command failed with exit code 1
    at ChildProcess.whenDone (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/cordova/node_modules/cordova-lib/src/cordova/superspawn.js:134:23)
    at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:110:17)
    at maybeClose (child_process.js:1015:16)
    at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (child_process.js:1087:5)

Hello,
I can run cordova create hello, cd hello, but I can't run cordova platform add android. I get "Unable to fetch platform android: Error: certificate not trusted". Can you help me? Thank you!

Hey !

Is it possible to add Ionic in the container, or at least an option during the install to chose if we want ionic or not ? It could be really useful !

Anyway, thank you so much for this, I really needed that kind of automation! If only I found this before, could have easily saved 3+ hours installation. Nice work !

Hello,
Are you able to rerun an already installed app ?
I have to uninstall it on the device otherwise I have a certificate failure

Hi,

It block on step 7

Step 7 : RUN ( sleep 5 && while [ 1 ]; do sleep 1; echo y; done ) | /usr/local/android-sdk-linux/tools/android update sdk --no-ui -a --filter platform-tool,build-tools-22.0.1,android-22; find /usr/local/android-sdk-linux -perm 0744 | xargs chmod 755

I'm on macbook pro. - OS X Yosemite and docker is correctly installed

Thanks for your help ;)

Hii there,
I've been trying to get your image to work, but no matter what I try, after I run cordova platform add android, it just flat out exits after the telemetry consent:

finlay@Finlay-e6410:~/my-project$ cordova platform add android
? May Cordova anonymously report usage statistics to improve the tool over time? Yes

Thanks for opting into telemetry to help us improve cordova.
finlay@Finlay-e6410:~/my-project$

I've tried running some other commands, and they all share this behaviour (with exception of the help command).
Any clues why this happens?

Could you specify a license for this project, please?

Can't detect device, USB debugging enabled, any help?

I tried to follow all the steps to create a docker image and run the cordova commands on an Ubuntu machine, but a few things failed.

Most notably I received an error that i needed to install android build tools version 23.
I modified my local docker file to have 23 and it all worked.

On a side note, the "cordova platform add android" command fails because it can no longer get the android files from the npm repositories.
I had to edit the config.xml file and add the engine with version 5.1.1 and provide a URL to the git repository. Then i ran cordova prepare and that worked. Maybe you want to add this to the main page?
Or i can fork and create a PR if you'll be willing to accept.