I think this has been brought up before and I've seen this as well. If you open the AVD manager that has the older platforms on it, you can manually start an emulator with one of them from there, then select the running emulator as your target when you do "Debug" or "Run".
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TreKing - Chicago transit tracking app for Android-powered devices http://sites.google.com/site/rezmobileapps/treking On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 9:08 AM, Dave Rowntree <[email protected]>wrote: > > > On Dec 1, 6:46 pm, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]> wrote: > > Just to reiterate -- there is really no reason not to build against the > most > > recent (2.0) SDK, as long as you test against the older ones. Use > > android:targetSdkVersion to tell the system that you have developed > against > > the newer version so they will be able to turn off their various > > compatibility features. > > Testing against older android versions in eclipse using AVDs is a > problem (hopefully I've missed something). > > e.g. > I have AVDs created against 1.5, 1.6, and 2.0. > Using the New Android Project wizard create a project against 2.0 SDK. > Edit the manifest to set minSDKVersion=3, maxSDKVersion=5, > targetSDKVersion=5 > > Using RunAs|Run Configurations look in the Target tab. The only avd > available is 2.0. You cannot select an older SDK to test against. > > (as I say, hopefully I have missed something) > > Dave Rowntree > > -- > 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]<android-developers%[email protected]> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > -- 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
