On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 2:57 AM, Raghav Sood <[email protected]> wrote:

> I am adding move to SD Card support for my apps. When I add
> android:installLocation="auto" to the manifest tag it requires me to edit
> the target in defaut.properties to 8. It now builds for 2.2.


This property did not exist until 2.2, thus you have to build at least
against that platform version or the system won't recognize it. In general
you should be building against the latest SDK regardless and using
reflection to handle backward compatibility issues.


> Does this mean that my app (which currently supports 1.5 and above) will
> only run on 2.2?


No, as long as you keep the minSDK setting to 1.5.


> Or does this mean that 1.5 and above can download this app but only 2.2 can
> move to SD Card as it is only 2.2 and above that support it?


Bingo.

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TreKing <http://sites.google.com/site/rezmobileapps/treking> - Chicago
transit tracking app for Android-powered devices

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