Cant install apk with adb

[ezyclie]

I just checked out android code and run make. Everything seems fine
but when i want to install my modified Launcher.apk i got this
message:

$ adb install -r Launcher.apk
1151 KB/s (704077 bytes in 0.597s)
pkg: /data/local/tmp/Launcher.apk
Failure [INSTALL_FAILED_OLDER_SDK]

So here're my questions:
1) Is there any way to check my SDK version?
2) How to launch Android emulator from Android tree(not SDK)?

Note: I use emulator from Android SDK not from Android tree

Thanks in advance!
-ezy

[Dianne Hackborn]

SDK doesn't really mean SDK, it means the platform only supports an older SDK than the app is using.  You need to make sure the app you are installing isn't built for a newer version of the platform.  You can look in the log output to get some more information about what happened.

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[g b]

So, SDK means platform API... ok, so i change my targetversion to 8 and:

inutil$ ant install

Buildfile: /home/gcb/code/BmwCodeInterpreter/build.xml

    [setup] Android SDK Tools Revision 10

    [setup] Project Target: Android 2.2

    [setup] API level: 8

...

    [exec] Failure [INSTALL_FAILED_OLDER_SDK]

on `adb logcat` of my nexus one running 2.2.2 i have:

W/PackageParser(   81): /data/app/vmdl28514.tmp (at Binary XML file line #15): Requires newer sdk version #10 (current version is #8)

So, it actually complained about the SDK10, while i'm building for API8... what's happening?

[Dianne Hackborn]

Your app is setting its minimum SDK version to 10 somewhere.

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[g b]

Indeed it was.

changed the sdk minversion on the manifest from 10 to 8 and it
worked... although the build information remained the very same.

thank you,
Gabriel

[Xavier Ducrohet]

[setup] API level: 8 in the build means that you are building against
the android.jar for API 8. It doesn't display what your manifest says.

Right now the build system only warns if your app declares that it's
compatible with something lower than what it compiles against (in case
you use newer API than the min platform your app is compatible with).

Xav

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