FILE_NOT_FOUND_ERROR After Removing and Adding Android Platform

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I'm seeing a strange issue where if I have this plugin installed, and I remove/add then android platform, emulating android without live reload results in a white screen.

For some reason the app loads

Ionic App
file:///android_asset/www/index.html

Instead of http://localhost/

And I get the following errors on load in the chrome inspector

/runtime-es2015.js:1 Failed to load resource: net::ERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND
cordova.js:1 Failed to load resource: net::ERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND
/vendor-es2015.js:1 Failed to load resource: net::ERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND
/main-es2015.js:1 Failed to load resource: net::ERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND
/styles-es2015.js:1 Failed to load resource: net::ERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND
/polyfills-es2015.js:1 Failed to load resource: net::ERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND
/assets/icon/favicon.png:1 Failed to load resource: net::ERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND

I have noticed that if I remove this from the plugin.xml and remove/add the android platform, I no longer have these errors. So whatever is being loaded here seems to be adjusting some root/network value in the config.

<config-file target="config.xml" parent="/*">
      <feature name="BranchSDK">
        <param name="android-package" value="io.branch.BranchSDK" />
        <param name="onload" value="true" />
      </feature>
</config-file>

Any thoughts?