Flutter – Android Studio won’t build IOS Simulator app due to bad plist.info

I’m using Android Studio to test my Flutter app on a Mac. XCode is installed, and I got the IOS Simulator working from there. Android Studio can see the IOS device. I point XCode to the IOS folder in my project but when I run the app it fails saying Info.plist does not contain a valid CFBundleVersion.

When I try to open the Info.plist file in XCode, I get the error “Failed to open property list: Malformed data byte group at line 1; invalid hex”

Could the problem possibly be that I wrote the code on Windows, and downloaded it from Git to my Mac so the character formatting is different?

Find the plist.info file contents below.

Android Studio version: Giraffe (2022.3.1)
XCode version: 15

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>CFBundleDevelopmentRegion</key>
    <string>$(DEVELOPMENT_LANGUAGE)</string>
    <key>CFBundleDisplayName</key>
    <string>Gm Firebase</string>
    <key>CFBundleExecutable</key>
    <string>$(EXECUTABLE_NAME)</string>
    <key>CFBundleIdentifier</key>
    <string>$(PRODUCT_BUNDLE_IDENTIFIER)</string>
    <key>CFBundleInfoDictionaryVersion</key>
    <string>6.0</string>
    <key>CFBundleName</key>
    <string>gm_firebase</string>
    <key>CFBundlePackageType</key>
    <string>APPL</string>
    <key>CFBundleShortVersionString</key>
    <string>$(FLUTTER_BUILD_NAME)</string>
    <key>CFBundleSignature</key>
    <string>????</string>
    <key>CFBundleVersion</key>
    <string>$(FLUTTER_BUILD_NUMBER)</string>
    <key>LSRequiresIPhoneOS</key>
    <true/>
    <key>UILaunchStoryboardName</key>
    <string>LaunchScreen</string>
    <key>UIMainStoryboardFile</key>
    <string>Main</string>
    <key>UISupportedInterfaceOrientations</key>
    <array>
        <string>UIInterfaceOrientationPortrait</string>
        <string>UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeLeft</string>
        <string>UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeRight</string>
    </array>
    <key>UISupportedInterfaceOrientations~ipad</key>
    <array>
        <string>UIInterfaceOrientationPortrait</string>
        <string>UIInterfaceOrientationPortraitUpsideDown</string>
        <string>UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeLeft</string>
        <string>UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeRight</string>
    </array>
    <key>CADisableMinimumFrameDurationOnPhone</key>
    <true/>
    <key>UIApplicationSupportsIndirectInputEvents</key>
    <true/>
</dict>
<key>CFBundleLocalizations</key>
<array>
    <string>en</string>
    <string>es</string>
</array>
</plist>

Here is the build error:

Xcode build done. 41.7s
Unable to install /Users/test/StudioProjects/gm_firebase/build/ios/iphonesimulator/Runner.app on 17A66106-BEA8-4F34-A75B-FE17E43E82A2. This is sometimes caused by a malformed plist file:
ProcessException: Process exited abnormally:
An error was encountered processing the command (domain=NSPOSIXErrorDomain, code=22):
Simulator device returned an error for the requested operation.
The application’s Info.plist does not contain a valid CFBundleVersion.
Ensure your bundle contains a valid CFBundleVersion.
Underlying error (domain=NSPOSIXErrorDomain, code=22):
Failed to install the requested application
The application’s Info.plist does not contain a valid CFBundleVersion.
Command: /usr/bin/arch -arm64e xcrun simctl install 17A66106-BEA8-4F34-A75B-FE17E43E82A2 /Users/test/StudioProjects/gm_firebase/build/ios/iphonesimulator/Runner.app
Error launching application on iPhone 15.

I’m not sure if it’s related, but the Flutter/Debug.xcconfig and Flutter/Release.xcconfig files also seem to have a format problem. I see this when I try to commit the files to Git: