cli will generate a productionDependencies.json that will be respected by gradle, so only the production dependencies are traversed, platform package is left installed as a dev dependency

Author: Plamen5kov

lib/constants.ts

@@ -16,6 +16,10 @@ export const TEST_RUNNER_NAME = "nativescript-unit-test-runner";
 export const LIVESYNC_EXCLUDED_FILE_PATTERNS = ["**/*.js.map", "**/*.ts"];
 export const XML_FILE_EXTENSION = ".xml";
 export const DEV_DEPENDENCIES = "devDependencies";
+export const FRAMEWORK_TO_PACKAGE:IStringDictionary = {
+	"android": TNS_ANDROID_RUNTIME_NAME,
+	"ios": TNS_IOS_RUNTIME_NAME
+}
 
 export class PackageVersion {
 	static NEXT = "next";

lib/services/platform-service.ts

@@ -97,8 +97,7 @@ export class PlatformService implements IPlatformService {
 			let frameworkDir = path.join(downloadedPackagePath, constants.PROJECT_FRAMEWORK_FOLDER_NAME);
 			frameworkDir = path.resolve(frameworkDir);
 
-			let coreModuleName = await this.addPlatformCore(platformData, frameworkDir);
-			await this.$npm.uninstall(coreModuleName, {}, this.$projectData.projectDir);
+			await this.addPlatformCore(platformData, frameworkDir);
 		} catch (err) {
 			this.$fs.deleteDirectory(platformPath);
 			throw err;

lib/services/plugins-service.ts

@@ -274,10 +274,9 @@ export class PluginsService implements IPluginsService {
 	}
 
 	private getInstalledFrameworkVersion(platform: string): string {
-		let platformData = this.$platformsData.getPlatformData(platform);
-		this.$projectDataService.initialize(this.$projectData.projectDir);
-		let version = this.$projectDataService.getValue(platformData.frameworkPackageName, constants.DEV_DEPENDENCIES);
-		return version;
+		let pathToInstalledFrameworkPackageJson = path.join(this.$projectData.projectDir, constants.NODE_MODULES_FOLDER_NAME, constants.FRAMEWORK_TO_PACKAGE[platform.toLowerCase()], constants.PACKAGE_JSON_FILE_NAME);
+		let jsonContent = this.$fs.readJson(pathToInstalledFrameworkPackageJson);
+		return jsonContent.version;
 	}
 
 	private isPluginDataValidForPlatform(pluginData: IPluginData, platform: string): boolean {

lib/tools/node-modules/node-modules-builder.ts

@@ -126,6 +126,11 @@ export class NodeModulesBuilder implements INodeModulesBuilder {
 		let dependenciesBuilder = this.$injector.resolve(NodeModulesDependenciesBuilder, {});
 		let productionDependencies = dependenciesBuilder.getProductionDependencies(this.$projectData.projectDir);
 
+		let prodDependenciesArr = [];
+		for(let i in productionDependencies) {
+			 prodDependenciesArr.push(productionDependencies[i].name);
+		}
+
 		if (!this.$options.bundle) {
 			const tnsModulesCopy = this.$injector.resolve(TnsModulesCopy, {
 				outputRoot: absoluteOutputPath
@@ -137,6 +142,9 @@ export class NodeModulesBuilder implements INodeModulesBuilder {
 
 		const npmPluginPrepare: NpmPluginPrepare = this.$injector.resolve(NpmPluginPrepare);
 		await npmPluginPrepare.preparePlugins(productionDependencies, platform);
+
+		let prodDependenciesFilePath = path.join(this.$projectData.projectDir, "platforms", "android", "build", "productionDependencies.json")
+		this.$fs.writeJson(prodDependenciesFilePath, prodDependenciesArr);
 	}
 
 	public cleanNodeModules(absoluteOutputPath: string, platform: string): void {