Question

I have two modules: my application’s module, which I want to be compiled using Android 2.3 platform, and ActionBarSherlock library module, which has to be compiled with Android 4.0 platform. When I set project structure that way and run application (and ActionBarSherlock is set as dependency of my module) – IDEA tries to compile everything with 2.3 API, and displays errors like this:

android-apt-compiler:
action-bar-sherlock\res\values-v14\abs__themes.xml:32: error: Error
retrieving parent for item: No resource found that matches the given
name ‘android:Theme.Holo.Light.Dialog’

How to set IDEA properly?

Answer 1

You can compile everything with the 4.0 libs, but support 2.3 using the following manifest declarations:

<uses-sdk
    android:minSdkVersion="8"
    android:targetSdkVersion="17" />

In the example, 17 is the current latest API version, but you can use 15, or whatever you need.