How to change the minSdkVersion of a project?

Question

I have been building a project and testing it on the Android emulator.

I realized that I set the minSdkVersion to 10. Now, I have a phone to test the program on, but its sdk version is 7.

I tried to go into the manifest file, and change the sdk version to 7, but every time I run the program, it crashes.

How can I rebuild or change the sdk version to a lower number (from 10 to 7), so that I can make sure my app is able to run on older phones?

Answer 1

In your app/build.gradle file, you can set the minSdkVersion inside defaultConfig.

android {     compileSdkVersion 23     buildToolsVersion "23.0.3"      defaultConfig {         applicationId "com.name.app"         minSdkVersion 19    // This over here         targetSdkVersion 23         versionCode 1         versionName "1.0"     }