Installation error INSTALL FAILED OLDER SDK

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I am new to Android development and I want first to get the Hello World application running  I am using Eclipse IDE and the Android 4 0 3 version 15 SDK  I copied everything from a tutorial site  but when I try to run the application on the virtual device I get this error    2012-02-01 11 31 23 - Android test  Installation error  INSTALL FAILED OLDER SDK  2012-02-01 11 31 23 - Android test  Please check logcat output for more details   2012-02-01 11 31 23 - Android test  Launch canceled    Here is my class in the com maze app package      package com maze app   import android app Activity  import android os Bundle  import android widget TextView   public class HelloAndroid extends Activity     Override     public void onCreate Bundle savedInstanceState            super onCreate savedInstanceState           TextView tv   new TextView this           tv setText  Hello  Android            setContentView tv               and the AndroidManifest xml    lt  xml version  1 0  encoding  utf-8   gt   lt manifest xmlns android  http   schemas android com apk res android  package  com maze app  android versionCode  1  android versionName  1 0   gt    lt uses-sdk android minSdkVersion  15  android targetSdkVersion   string app name   gt    lt application     android icon   drawable ic launcher      android label   string app name   gt       lt activity android name  HelloAndroid  android launchMode  standard  android enabled  true  gt  lt  activity gt   lt  application gt      Here is the configuration of the Virtual Device   Name  AndroidVD CPU ABI  ARM armeabi-v7a  Path  path to avd Target  Android 4 0 3 API level 15  Skin  WVGA800 hw lcd density  240 hw cpu model  cortex-a8 vm heapSize  48 hw ramSize 512   What is the problem   EDIT  The application is not running on the Virtual Device  Here is what I get on LogCat some of the lines    D PackageManager 92   New package installed in  data app com maze app-2 apk D dalvikvm 92   GC CONCURRENT freed 660K  9  free 11935K 12999K  paused 18ms 72ms I ActivityManager 92   Force stopping package com maze app uid 10040 D BackupManagerService 92   Received broadcast Intent   act android intent action PACKAGE REPLACED dat package com maze app flg 0x10000010  has extras    V BackupManagerService 92   updatePackageParticipantsLocked  com maze app

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Ionic Android emulator error INSTALL FAILED OLDER SDK  So  basically it means that the installation has failed due to having an older SDK version than the targetSdkVersion specified in your app  it s a Gradle issue   Just edit the AndroidManifest xml file and add the following code    x000D   x000D   lt uses-sdk android minSdkVersion  19  android targetSdkVersion  14   gt  x000D   x000D   x000D    After days looking for the solution  that s it   Works fine for me

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This means the version of android of your avd is older than the version being used to compile the code

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In my case I edited a project having this in the AndroidManifest xml file  and which was ginving me the above error  at runtime    lt uses-sdk     android minSdkVersion  17      android targetSdkVersion  17    gt    What I did just  was to change minSdkVersion  17   to minSdkVersion  16   My resulting tag was    lt uses-sdk     android minSdkVersion  16      android targetSdkVersion  17    gt    Now I m not getting the error anymore    Hope this helps

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You will see the same error if you are trying to install an apk that was built using  compileSdkVersion  android-L    Even for devices running the final version of Android 5 0  Simply change this to  compileSdkVersion 21

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Make sure to check your build gradle and that it doesn t use a newer SDK version than what is installed on your AVD  That s only if you use Android Studio though

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I ve changed my android minSdkVersion and android targetSdkVersion to 18 from 21   uses-sdk android minSdkVersion  18  android targetSdkVersion  18     Now I can install my app successfully

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If the error  Installation error  INSTALL FAILED OLDER SDK  appears  you must change the version of minSdkVersion in AndroidManifest to the one specified in the android emulator  see Settings -  About phone -  Android version

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I am on Android Studio  I got this error when min targetSDKVersion were set to 17  While looking thro this thread  I tried to change the minSDKVersion  voila  problem fixed  Go figure              android minSdkVersion  17      android targetSdkVersion  17    gt

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Mate  my advice is to change virtual device  Download  Genimotion  application  its easy to use and there are a lot of any devices you need

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I found that making the recommended change in the manifest didn t solve my problem   The fix was found in the GradleScripts folder  in the build gradle file for the Module app   Inside this file  build gradle  the following line was modified  minSdkVersion 22 I changed this  22  value to  19  for my particular phone and the build completed without error

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Go in your project s build cradle file and add   defaultConfig       minSdkVersion versions minSdk       This makes it that your application conforms to the minimum SDK your device is running

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This error occurs when the sdk-version installed on your device  real or virtual device  is smaller than android minSdkVersion in your android manifest   You either have to decrease your android minSdkVersion or you have to specify a higher api-version for your AVD   Keep in mind  that it is not always trivial to decrease android minSdkVersion as you have to make sure  your app cares about the actual installed API and uses the correct methods   AsyncTask lt String  Object  String gt  task   new AsyncTask lt String  Object  String gt           Override     protected Boolean doInBackground String    params            if  params    null  return             StringBuilder b   new StringBuilder            for  String p   params                 b append p                     return b toString             if  Build VERSION SDK INT  gt   Build VERSION CODES HONEYCOMB        task executeOnExecutor AsyncTask THREAD POOL EXECUTOR  Hello         world       else       task execute  Hello         world         Using the android-support-library and or libraries like actionbar-sherlock will help you dealing especially with widgets of older versions

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I tried all the responses described here but my solution was changing inside my build gradle file minSdkVersion from 8 to 9 because some libraries in my project can  t work with API 8  that  s was the reason for the message INSTALL FAILED OLDER SDK    apply plugin   com android application       android           compileSdkVersion 22         buildToolsVersion  22 0 1           defaultConfig               applicationId  com tuna hello androidstudioapplication              minSdkVersion 9             targetSdkVersion 22             versionCode 1             versionName  1 0

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Received the same error   the problem was difference in the version of Android SDK which AVD was using and the version in AndroidManifest file  I could solve it by correcting the  android minSdkVersion  16   to match with AVD

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It is due to android targetSdkVersion   string app name  in your manifiest file  Change it to    lt uses-sdk android minSdkVersion  15  android targetSdkVersion  15   gt    The targetSdkVersion should be an integer  but  string app name would be a string  I think this causing the error     EDIT  You have to add a default intent-filter in your manifiest file for the activity  Then only android can launch the activity  otherwise you will get the below error in your console window      2012-02-02 09 17 39 - Test  No Launcher activity found   2012-02-02 09 17 39 - Test  The launch will only sync the application package on the device    Add the following to your  lt activity gt  tag      lt activity android name  HelloAndroid  android launchMode  standard  android enabled  true  gt       lt intent-filter gt       lt action android name  android intent action MAIN    gt       lt category android name  android intent category LAUNCHER    gt     lt  intent-filter gt   lt  activity gt

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If you are totally new like me  you must install the minimum SDK at first  Check the link   This worked out perfectly for me   Same problem other post with a good solution  Regards   Khaled

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Fix for new Android 6 0 Marshmallow Fixed my issue when I updated to API 23  Android 6 0 Marshmallow  by updating the build tools version to 23 0 0 as follows   android       buildToolsVersion  23 0 0        And went to File   Project Structure   chose Properties tab then updated the Compile Sdk version to  API 23  Android 5 X  MNC   and the Build tools version to  23 0 0

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I am using Android Studio 0 8 1  I have a project s gradle file like below   android       compileSdkVersion 19     buildToolsVersion  20 0 0       defaultConfig           applicationId  com omersonmez widgets hotspot          minSdkVersion 15         targetSdkVersion 19         versionCode 1         versionName  1 0            buildTypes           release               runProguard false             proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile  proguard-android txt     proguard-rules pro                      My emulator was android 4 0   So i modified my emulator and made api level 4 0 3 apilevel 15   It worked

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My solution was to change the run configurations module drop-down list from wearable to android    This error happened to me when I tried running Google s I O Sched open-source app   It would automatically pop up the configurations every time I tried to run until I changed the module to android   You can access the configurations by going to Run -  Edit Configurations    -  General tab -  Module   drop-down-list-here

[android] Installation error: INSTALL_FAILED_OLDER_SDK

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