That didn't happen for me -- I had to set the minSdkVersion manually.  But
is sounds like I had the right idea, so I'll file a bug report.

Thanks,

Darren

On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 11:27 PM, Tom Opgenorth <t...@opgenorth.net> wrote:

> Correct - the Minimum Android to Target will set the minSdkVersion in
> AndroidManifest.XML.
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 9:45 PM, Darren Abbott <dar...@darrenabbott.com>wrote:
>
>> I wanted to create an app that would take advantage of API level 11, but
>> still run in a reduced functionality mode down to API level 8.
>>
>> In my projects settings, I tried setting "Application/Minimum Android to
>> Target" to "Android 2.2" and "Android Manifest/Target API level" to 12
>> (closest available to 11).  Unfortunately, my application wouldn't compile
>> since it was taking advantage of API level 11.  If I
>> set  "Application/Minimum Android to Target" to "Android 3.1", it would
>> compile but wouldn't run on an Android 2.2 machine.
>>
>> I was able to solve my problem by manually editing AndroidManifest.xml
>> and adding android:minSdkVersion="8" to the uses-sdk attribute.  That
>> allowed be to compile (I had Minimum Android to Target set to 3.1), and
>> since I guarded the API 11 section of my code it would run on a 2.2 machine.
>>
>> Is Minimum Android to Target supposed to set minSdkVersion in
>> AndroidManifest.xml?  If not, that would seem to be a useful setting to
>> expose in some manner.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Darren
>>
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