Master/Detail flow has minimum api level equal to that in use

Question

When i try to create a new Master/Detail flow activity in Android Studio i am told "The activity Master/Detail Flow has a minimum SDK level of 11.". I understand why this is, but I don't understand why i am being prevented from creating this activity as the min SDK as defined by my AndroidManifest.xml is 11.

I created with a lower minimum but have since changed to 11. When i create a new project with a miniumum of 11, and then change the manifest to use 7 as min SDK I can create a new Master/Detail flow activity. This makes me think there is a project property i need to change, but I cannot find it!

I have tried so far:

• downloading all SDKs from 11 upwards
• Rebuilding project
• Invalidating cache and restarting
• setting Min, Target and Max SDK to 18
• creating a new activity with "Power save mode" on

Answer 1

This may be late answer but i found same problem.

Here is solution. On your build.gradle there will be following line

android {
    compileSdkVersion 17
    buildToolsVersion "17.0.0"

    defaultConfig {
        minSdkVersion 8
        targetSdkVersion 16
    }
}

just change minSdkVersion to 11 and click "Sync Project with Gradel File" icon, then try to create Activity again.