Question

I am trying to learn android app development .I am using IntelliJ Idea 10.When I do what’s told in
http://wiki.jetbrains.net/intellij/Developing_applications_for_Android_in_IntelliJ_IDEA
I get the following error:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: Bad version number in .class file
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:620)
    at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:124)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:260)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(URLClassLoader.java:56)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:195)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:188)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:306)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:251)
    at com.intellij.rt.execution.CommandLineWrapper.main(CommandLineWrapper.java:70)

Please help me out of this.And please elaborate your answers as I am totally new to this

Answer 1

When configuring Android SDK in IntelliJ IDEA you should set it to use JDK 1.6, not 1.7. If you want to use 1.7 it looks like you need to run IDEA itself under JDK 1.7.