Can change defaults for supports-screens. Can also disable compatibility features, like reporting a smaller size than the actual display and scaling your app up.
See: http://developer.android.com/intl/zh-TW/guide/practices/screens_support.html On Jan 5, 9:15 pm, Matt Kanninen <mathias...@gmail.com> wrote: > What does targetSdkVersion do? > > There isn't much detail on what targetSdkVersion actually does. > > I've read: > > http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/manifest/uses-sdk-element.h... > > android:targetSdkVersion > An integer designating the API Level that the application is > targetting. > > With this attribute set, the application says that it is able to > run on older versions (down to minSdkVersion), but was explicitly > tested to work with the version specified here. Specifying this target > version allows the platform to disable compatibility settings that are > not required for the target version (which may otherwise be turned on > in order to maintain forward-compatibility) or enable newer features > that are not available to older applications. This does not mean that > you can program different features for different versions of the > platform—it simply informs the platform that you have tested against > the target version and the platform should not perform any extra work > to maintain forward-compatibility with the target version. > > Introduced in: API Level 4 > > I'm curious because it appears that switching from: > > <uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="3" android:targetSdkVersion="4"/> > > to > > <uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="3"/> > > is the change that started the > > android.view.InflateException ... java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: bitmap > size exceeds VM budget > > errors I was randomly seeing in setContentView. When I remove the > targetSdkVersion it runs much better. > > Now I'm having trouble remembering what adding targetSdkVersion got me > in the first place.
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