SpiderBasic

Android ART runtime, OS version, and Cordova have changed a lot in eight years. It's probably just a matter of watching "cordova plugin add" under Chromium debug. Likely something with Apache CDN filtering old plugins. Find a plugin published more recently; it looks like most become abandonware. These haven't been updated since around when I made this post.

I've looked at the source for Cordova plugins they are just Java using Android SDK callbacks

I actually found the issue, it was an error with new cordova version and SB build integration. It works again with SB 3.10+.