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Stanimir Yakimov
Stanimir Yakimov

Reputation: 884

Android Studio problems since the last update to 0.8 version

I'm following the Google I/O conference and just a week before they announced that Android Studio 0.8 is available for downloading. Before that I used 0.6 and I was developing an application. Now I'm having both 0.6 and 0.8 on my Ubuntu. I added all the update from SDK for Android Watch and TV and all the Material Design stuffs. And today when I opened my project in the 0.8 version, after a few updates of some things, I'm receiving an error 

Error:Execution failed for task ':app:processDebugManifest'.
> Manifest merger failed : uses-sdk:minSdkVersion 8 cannot be smaller than version L declared in library com.android.support:appcompat-v7:21.0.0-rc1

If someone has any idea what is this all about - share please. I tried to pull my project from my repository in GitHub, but without any result. Thank you.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 4185

Answers (6)

Jim Beam
Jim Beam

Reputation: 31

I had a similar issue like that before. After I updated to 0.8.1, it showed an error below when compiling my previous projects.

"uses-sdk:minSdkVersion 8 cannot be smaller than version L declared in library com.android.support:appcompat-v7:21.0.0-rc1".

This is how I fixed it.

  1. In your project, find build.gradle file in app folder and open it.
  2. At dependencies section, change the value of compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7'. For example, in my case, it was compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:+', and I changed it to compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:20.+'. Of course, you could change it to compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:19.+' if you like.

I hope it would help. Let me know if you are still stuck on it.

Upvotes: 1

munna
munna

Reputation: 43

I had the same issue.

I made the following changes to the dependencies section in build.grade file located in the app folder. 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:20.0.0' to 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:20.+'

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Upvotes: 0

Vaha
Vaha

Reputation: 131

I had the same error. I found the solution.

dependencies {
    compile ('com.android.support:support-v13:20.0.0'){
        force = true
    }
    compile ('com.android.support:support-v4:20.0.0'){
        force = true
    }
    compile ('com.android.support:appcompat-v7:20.0.0'){
        force = true
    }
}

I think that instead of 20.0.0, you can specify a different version if you use less than 20 targetSdkVersion.

Upvotes: 0

Zafer
Zafer

Reputation: 316

just try this:

android {
    android {
        compileSdkVersion 20 //or whatever you want
        buildToolsVersion '19.1.0'

        defaultConfig {
            minSdkVersion 14 //or whatever you want
            targetSdkVersion 20 //or whatever you want
        }
    }
    dependencies {
        compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:19.+'
    }

}

and if you have another module in your project, check manifest files in those modules too.

Upvotes: 1

Bryan Herbst
Bryan Herbst

Reputation: 67189

It looks like you have declared a dependency on version 21 of appcompat-v7 in your build.gradle.

At this time, the preview of the Android L support libraries only works with apps that declare the L preview as their min SDK.

Either revert to a previous version of the support library (I believe the latest is com.android.support:appcompat-v7:19.1.0) or update your project to support a minimum of 'L'.

Upvotes: 6

Henk Kleynhans
Henk Kleynhans

Reputation: 1

I had similar problems. Although I'm not sure exactly what caused the problem or which step fixed the issue, I did the following and ultimately got things working again:

  1. I closed down Android Studio

  2. I ran SDK Manager and and checked that everything was up to date. I have the following installed:

    • Android SDK tools Rev. 23
    • Android SDK Platform-tools Rev. 20
    • Android SDK Build-tools Rev. 20
    • Android L (API 20, L preview)
    • Android 4.4W (API 20)
    • Android 4.4.2 (API 19)

  3. I restarted Android Studio and started a new (blank) project to test and ran it -> Success!

I found the process pretty finickity, so your mileage might vary. Let me know how you go.

Upvotes: 0

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