Why doesn't the android SDK warn me about backward compatibility issues?

Question

I set my minimum API version to 8, but the android SDK fails to warn me when I use functions that were added in API 14. Why is that?

<uses-sdk
    android:minSdkVersion="8"
    android:targetSdkVersion="17" />

Answer 1

Right click on your project -> Android tools -> Run Lint.
The Lint tool will warn you. It also checks for incompleteness in your strings file etc.