Android :: Not Able To Use New Resource Identifiers With TargetSdkVersion Defined In Manifest?
Jul 9, 2010
I'm developing an Android application that I'd like to be compatible with 1.5 (SDK version 4).
I'm testing the application on 2.2 (SDK version 8).
To do this, I'm including in the manifest file the line <uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="4" android:targetSdkVersion="8" />
I thought this would allow me to use the newest manifest elements and APIs, but I'm getting a compile error whenever I try to use them. For example, I try to define the element installLocation to allow the app to be installed on the SD card, but Eclipse gives me the error
No resource identifier found for attribute 'installLocation' in package 'android'
Is there something else I have to do to get this to work? If I can't get this to work, what benefit is defining targetSdkVersion?
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Mar 20, 2010
I recently upgraded my Android app to support multiple resolutions. Previously, my Android.manifest file had a line:
To support multiple density and resolution devices, I changed this to:
CODE:............
I then added a couple of new directories, like drawable-hdpi-v4 and drawable-long-hdpi-v4 that includes the high-res versions of the graphics. That's about it.
Ever since releasing this update, there have been a decent number of users complaining about various problems:
the app icon doesn't appear (I did not create a high res version of the icon)
the home screen widget no longer works, even if they delete and re-add it (this code did not change with the update). I've had a user send me their error log, which shows:
CODE:................
There is one questionable section in my existing widget code that may be relevant:
CODE:..........
And perhaps most troublesome: the sqlite database is no longer accessible/writeable for some users so their data is no longer available. I did add the WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permission to the manifest. This is only happening to certain users and it tends to be HTC Eris users. In that error log I see things such as:
CODE:.........
It's as if the update has caused a new process and it can't access the old process's data, or something.
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Can I access the values defined in a java manifest from code?
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Jan 30, 2009
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Changing the name by even one character solved the problem so it's nothing serious. My question: is there some set of names we must not use as resource identifiers?
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Sep 21, 2010
I'm trying to use a color defined in a stlyle in a selector but it is causing a Resources$NotFoundException.
First I added a new attribute to attr.xml:
CODE:..........
Then I defined that attr value in styles.xml:
CODE:..........
Then I tried to use that attr in my selector definition:
CODE:................
Lastly, the activity uses the ThemeNoTitleBar style theme in the manifest.
I've also tried creating a color in colors.xml and having it use the new attr but that also fails.
I'm obviously missing something but am not sure what to do to fix it. My intent is to create multiple themes and have the selector use the color in the currently selected theme.
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implicit intent with class name as action defined in intentfilter. is not working. Only it it is defined as "android.intent.action." it is picked up ? is it so ?
I have app A with the following in manifest.xml file
CODE:.............
In app B, i tried to call the activity in A using below code.
CODE:.............
This code works. But not above line.
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Nov 24, 2010
My Android application uses minSdkVersion=3 and targetSdkVersion=8. I used 8 because that is the highest level of API the application was tested on; however, it was written for level 3 and does not use any features beyond that level (except one for level 4 using reflection). Could using targetSdkVersion=8 be causing: the Android Market to filter the application for some devices? My intention is for the application to be available for ALL devices >= level 3 with NO filtering. problems in the application since targetSdkVersion=8 will, according to google: "disable compatibility settings that are not required for the target version (which may otherwise be turned on in order to maintain forward-compatibility) or enable newer features that are not available to older applications".
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Jan 5, 2010
What does targetSdkVersion do?
There isn't much detail on what targetSdkVersion actually does.
I've read:[url]
An integer designating the API Level that the application is targetting.
With this attribute set, the application says that it is able to run on older versions (down to minSdkVersion), but was explicitly tested to work with the version specified here. Specifying this target version allows the platform to disable compatibility settings that are not required for the target version (which may otherwise be turned on in order to maintain forward-compatibility) or enable newer features that are not available to older applications. This does not mean that you can program different features for different versions of the platform—it simply informs the platform that you have tested against the target version and the platform should not perform any extra work to maintain forward-compatibility with the target version.
Introduced in: API Level 4
I'm curious because it appears that switching from:
<uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="3" android:targetSdkVersion="4"/> to <uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="3"/> is the change that started the
android.view.InflateException ... java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: bitmap size exceeds VM budget
errors I was randomly seeing in setContentView. When I remove the targetSdkVersion it runs much better.
Now I'm having trouble remembering what adding targetSdkVersion got me in the first place.
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Oct 12, 2010
I am getting the warning: Attribute minSdkVersion (3) is lower than the project target API level (8)
How will this affect my app?
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Apr 16, 2010
Here's my situation: I have an app that's been compiled using 1.5 SDK and minSdkVersion=3. Now I want to add 2 icons: one for high density screens like Droid and another one for low density screens like G1.
For this, I added the high density icon to new directory drawable-hdpi- v4/. I then compiled using 1.6 sdk and added targetSdkVersion="4" to the manifest. minSdkVersion is still 3.
This is working in limited testing, but I'm not sure if I have done everything correctly.
I have many questions:
1. By specifying v4 in drawable-hdpi-v4, the icon will not be displayed to 1.5 or below OS's. But what about users with 2.0 or higher SDK's? Will they get the non-hdpi icon, since they will have v6 or v7 ?
2. The documentation for targetSdkVersion states, "Specifying this target version allows the platform to disable compatibility settings that are not required for the target version (which may otherwise be turned on in order to maintain forward-compatibility)". Does this mean that my app will not be forward compatible as soon as I specify a targetSdkVersion? What exactly is being turned off?
3. Even if I leave out the targetSdkVersion="4", the app runs ok. So do I really need it?
4. Should I be using the latest SDK (2.1) and setting that as the targetsdkversion and compiling against that? Or some other combination of targetsdkversion and compiling sdk? I'm not using any API's that are not in 1.5..
5. Is any of this related to why some of my HTC Eris users have complained that they can no longer find my app in Market after upgrading to 2.1?
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Aug 3, 2010
I have an XML resource file:
<resources> <section>
<category value="1" resourceId="@xml/categoryData1" />
<category value="2" resourceId="@xml/categoryData2" />
<category value="3" resourceId="@xml/categoryData3" />
</section> </resources>
Using XmlPullParser, on the START_TAG, I can use:
int value = parser.getAttributeIntValue(null, "value", 0);
to get values 1, 2, 3...however:
int resourceId = parser.getAttributeIntValue(null, "resourceId", 0);
doesn't work...it just yields the default value 0, or whatever I change the default value (3rd parameter) to be. Does anyone know what I am doing wrong or if this is possible?
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I have a program that should work on Android 1.5, but when it's run on newer devices with higher resolution screens, it should support the full resolution and not emulate a lower resolution screen. As far as I can tell from the documentation, this should be simple.
I just specify
code:.........
The problem is that if I tell Eclipse to compile for 1.5, it refuses to accept this. It reports an error (targetSdkVersion is an unknown tag) and refuses to compile or run. If I tell it to compile for 1.6 it works fine, of course. But if I then try to install on a 1.5 AVD, the program immediately crashes with a java.lang.VerifyError. I'm clearly missing something simple. How do I get it to compile an apk that works under 1.5, but still includes the targetSdkVersion tag?
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CODE:................
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CODE:.........
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