I think that @tomysmile has found the way to fix it at the moment, this is a Cordova bug and not Ionic specific:
Cordova released a fix for this one month ago for the Android platform but for some reason the cordova-cli is still using an old version of the Android platform that hasn't the problem fixed.
You can see that by default cordova is adding as android platform version the 6.0.0 but the bug is fixed in the 6.1.0 (https://github.com/apache/cor...
Remove and add the platform can be avoided, I've added them for the people that had copy/pasted the icon and splashcreen to the platform folder, if you haven't done that the third step would be enough.
I think that @tomysmile has found the way to fix it at the moment, this is a Cordova bug and not Ionic specific:
Cordova released a fix for this one month ago for the Android platform but for some reason the cordova-cli is still using an old version of the Android platform that hasn't the problem fixed.
So, the steps:
$ ionic platform rm android
$ ionic platform add android
$ ionic platform update android@6.1.0
You can see that by default cordova is adding as android platform version the 6.0.0 but the bug is fixed in the 6.1.0 (https://github.com/apache/cor...
Remove and add the platform can be avoided, I've added them for the people that had copy/pasted the icon and splashcreen to the platform folder, if you haven't done that the third step would be enough.