Question

I am following this guide and based on here, it says

Don’t bother using older versions of Android. Use the highest SDK
target available. Phonegap will take care of backwards compatibility
for you.

So I use these targets:

Build target

Android 2.3.3

and

minimum SDK 4

and use

cordova-1.9.0.jar

but gives following error when I try to run it on Android 1.6

E/dalvikvm(200): Could not find method android.webkit.WebView.<init>, referenced from method org.apache.cordova.CordovaWebView.<init>
W/dalvikvm(200): VFY: unable to resolve direct method 285: Landroid/webkit/WebView;.<init> (Landroid/content/Context;Landroid/util/AttributeSet;IZ)V
W/dalvikvm(200): VFY:  rejecting opcode 0x70 at 0x0001
W/dalvikvm(200): VFY:  rejected Lorg/apache/cordova/CordovaWebView;.<init> (Landroid/content/Context;Landroid/util/AttributeSet;IZ)V
W/dalvikvm(200): Verifier rejected class Lorg/apache/cordova/CordovaWebView;
D/AndroidRuntime(200): Shutting down VM
W/dalvikvm(200): threadid=3: thread exiting with uncaught exception (group=0x4001aa28)
E/AndroidRuntime(200): Uncaught handler: thread main exiting due to uncaught exception
E/AndroidRuntime(200): java.lang.VerifyError: org.apache.cordova.CordovaWebView
E/AndroidRuntime(200):  at org.apache.cordova.DroidGap.init(DroidGap.java:297)
E/AndroidRuntime(200):  at org.apache.cordova.DroidGap.loadUrl(DroidGap.java:343)
E/AndroidRuntime(200):  at phone.gap.test.PhonegapTestActivity.onCreate(PhonegapTestActivity.java:13)
E/AndroidRuntime(200):  at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1123)
E/AndroidRuntime(200):  at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2364)
E/AndroidRuntime(200):  at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2417)
E/AndroidRuntime(200):  at android.app.ActivityThread.access$2100(ActivityThread.java:116)
E/AndroidRuntime(200):  at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1794)
E/AndroidRuntime(200):  at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
E/AndroidRuntime(200):  at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:123)
E/AndroidRuntime(200):  at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4203)
E/AndroidRuntime(200):  at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
E/AndroidRuntime(200):  at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:521)
E/AndroidRuntime(200):  at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:791)
E/AndroidRuntime(200):  at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:549)
E/AndroidRuntime(200):  at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)

However it runs well when I run it on Android 2.3.3.
Does Phonegap not support Android 1.6?

Answer 1

PhoneGap 1.0 removed support for Android releases before 2.1. You could use one of the 0.9.x releases with Android 1.6.