No, I didn’t extract that from the error. My take away is that 16.0.1 isn’t available in the build system.
The PLAY_SERVICES_VERSION and ANDROID_SUPPORT_V4_VERSION are optional so when I remove those, I get the same error… I don’t think this is on my end.
I also found that the developer very kindly failed to document a change of the PLAY_SERVICES_VERSION from a variable to a preference that’s now called GOOGLE_PLAY_SERVICES_VERSION.
No matter which way I turn, the later version of this plugin won’t build. I rolled back to 2.6.2 and I gotta roll with that and see how far I get but most likely, I’ll need to install cordova cli locally and add the plugin manually as that sets the variables to the required level… 9 hours of work later. sigh…