Question

I want to check whether my app uses any object/method that does not exist on Android 1.5 (=API level 3), so I wrote in AndroidManifest.xml:

<uses-sdk  android:minSdkVersion="3" android:targetSdkVersion="3"/>

… then I ran ant clean debug and:

PROBLEM: Ant still uses the highest SDK level I have installed (11), not the one I want (3):

-setup:
[echo] Gathering info for AnkiDroid...
[setup] Android SDK Tools Revision 15
[setup] Project Target: Android 3.0
[setup] API level: 11

Answer 1

You also have to set the target SDK for your project.
There are multiple ways to do that

• In Eclipse
  Right click on the project in eclipse, go to properties -> android and select a target SDK from the list.

• Via the command line
  Use android update project -t <targetID> as described here, where <targetID> is one of the target ids that you get listed by executing android list targets.

You can see the current target in the project.properties file in your project folder, it should have a line like this:

target=android-14

(it might also work to edit this file directly. I’m not sure though, so if you try that, be prepared and have a backup, expect things to break, etc. 😉 )