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After installing the Android SDK, I noticed that I need to choose the platform, i.e. Android 1.3 all the way upto 4.1 individually.
My question is, does this mean if I create an app, I have to create it on each and every platform individually?
I am a total noobie to Android development…
It’s basically recommended to choose lowest API you plan to support in your application (unless you know you got reasons to have it set differently). For example if your app is for Honeycomb and newer versions only, then select SDK 3.0 to get access to all the features newly introduced in HC which you may want to use. But if your application shall run also on older devices with older versions of Android like 2.0.1 (or even 1.6 if you really need) set this to lowest API desired. So, now that rule is sufficient for you and lets you ensure you accidentally won’t use any API method not supported on all platforms you target to which would lead your application to crash.
If not sure what API you want I suggest go for 2.x and simply ignore any older Android versions as it is basically pointless, according to platform version breakdown statistics published by Google.
I recommend you read this SDK article on how to define
minSdkandtargetSdkelements to match your requirements.