I see none chimed in, so I am going to speculate on the reason: some cocky engineer put the warning in because HE thought you should always develop only for the latest version. But once he got it in, nobody at Google considered it a high enough priority bug to schedule the 5 minutes or so required to remove it.
What's that you say, Googler's? You don't like that answer? Then come up with your own! On Aug 12, 8:21 pm, TreKing <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 6:00 PM, Zsolt Vasvari <[email protected]> wrote: > > The second one is in AndroidManifest.xml: "Attribute minSdkVersion (3) is > > lower than the project target API level (8)" > > Yes! Thank you for bringing this up. It drives me crazy as it's the only > warning I have and there's nothing to do about it. > > Can a Googler chime in and explain why this is even a warning? Seeing as to > do this you already have to know what you're doing and it's required to > maintain compatibility with the ever-increasing range of platform versions. > > Better yet, can we get rid of it!? =D > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > TreKing <http://sites.google.com/site/rezmobileapps/treking> - Chicago > transit tracking app for Android-powered devices -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
