I'm trying to install an app into my device. I type phonegap local build android and compiles just fine.Then I type phonegap run android and I get the following nice reply in the terminal:
syd@whitebook:~/Desktop/testapp$ phonegap run android
[phonegap] detecting Android SDK environment...
[phonegap] using the local environment
[phonegap] compiling Android...
[phonegap] successfully compiled Android app
[phonegap] trying to install app onto device
[phonegap] successfully installed onto device
But no application can be found in my mobile(Debug enabled & Unknow sources allowed). Then I navigate to platforms/android/bin and do this: adb install SomeTest-debug.apk and I get the error: INSTALL_FAILED_OLDER_SDK.
Mobile: HTC Wildfire with android version: 2.2.1
And here is my config.xml in the www folder:
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<widget id="com.tech.testapp" version="1.0.0" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/ns/widgets" xmlns:gap="http://phonegap.com/ns/1.0">
<name>SomeTest</name>
<description>
Hello World sample application that responds to the deviceready event.
</description>
<author email="[email protected]" href="http://phonegap.com">
PhoneGap Team
</author>
<feature name="http://api.phonegap.com/1.0/device" />
<preference name="permissions" value="none" />
<preference name="orientation" value="default" />
<preference name="target-device" value="universal" />
<preference name="fullscreen" value="true" />
<preference name="webviewbounce" value="true" />
<preference name="prerendered-icon" value="true" />
<preference name="stay-in-webview" value="false" />
<preference name="ios-statusbarstyle" value="black-opaque" />
<preference name="detect-data-types" value="true" />
<preference name="exit-on-suspend" value="false" />
<preference name="show-splash-screen-spinner" value="true" />
<preference name="auto-hide-splash-screen" value="true" />
<preference name="disable-cursor" value="false" />
<preference name="android-minSdkVersion" value="8" />
<preference name="android-installLocation" value="auto" />
<icon src="icon.png" />
<icon gap:density="ldpi" gap:platform="android" src="res/icon/android/icon-36-ldpi.png" />
<icon gap:density="mdpi" gap:platform="android" src="res/icon/android/icon-48-mdpi.png" />
<icon gap:density="hdpi" gap:platform="android" src="res/icon/android/icon-72-hdpi.png" />
<icon gap:density="xhdpi" gap:platform="android" src="res/icon/android/icon-96-xhdpi.png" />
<icon gap:platform="blackberry" src="res/icon/blackberry/icon-80.png" />
<icon gap:platform="blackberry" gap:state="hover" src="res/icon/blackberry/icon-80.png" />
<icon gap:platform="ios" height="57" src="res/icon/ios/icon-57.png" width="57" />
<icon gap:platform="ios" height="72" src="res/icon/ios/icon-72.png" width="72" />
<icon gap:platform="ios" height="114" src="res/icon/ios/icon-57-2x.png" width="114" />
<icon gap:platform="ios" height="144" src="res/icon/ios/icon-72-2x.png" width="144" />
<icon gap:platform="webos" src="res/icon/webos/icon-64.png" />
<icon gap:platform="winphone" src="res/icon/windows-phone/icon-48.png" />
<icon gap:platform="winphone" gap:role="background" src="res/icon/windows-phone/icon-173.png" />
<gap:splash gap:density="ldpi" gap:platform="android" src="res/screen/android/screen-ldpi-portrait.png" />
<gap:splash gap:density="mdpi" gap:platform="android" src="res/screen/android/screen-mdpi-portrait.png" />
<gap:splash gap:density="hdpi" gap:platform="android" src="res/screen/android/screen-hdpi-portrait.png" />
<gap:splash gap:density="xhdpi" gap:platform="android" src="res/screen/android/screen-xhdpi-portrait.png" />
<gap:splash gap:platform="blackberry" src="res/screen/blackberry/screen-225.png" />
<gap:splash gap:platform="ios" height="480" src="res/screen/ios/screen-iphone-portrait.png" width="320" />
<gap:splash gap:platform="ios" height="960" src="res/screen/ios/screen-iphone-portrait-2x.png" width="640" />
<gap:splash gap:platform="ios" height="1024" src="res/screen/ios/screen-ipad-portrait.png" width="768" />
<gap:splash gap:platform="ios" height="768" src="res/screen/ios/screen-ipad-landscape.png" width="1024" />
<gap:splash gap:platform="winphone" src="res/screen/windows-phone/screen-portrait.jpg" />
<access origin="http://127.0.0.1*" />
</widget>
As you see miSDK is version 8 which is Android 2.2 if I'm not mistaken. Could someone please tell me why is this happening and what is the issue here that prevents me from getting the app to work on my mobile?
You're right, the problem is with the min-target-sdk version. I think that the 8 which you specify in the config.xml is being overwritten by Cordova/Phonegap CLI. What is the value of min-target-sdk when you look in the AndroidManifest.xml file of the app itself, after it is compiled? When I look at mine, it is always '10', which is Android 2.3.3. Since this is the min supported SDK, this is the reason adb is unable to install on your emulator. Bump your emulator SDK up to API 10 and it should work.
Cordova currently only supports Android 2.3 and above, see https://github.com/apache/cordova-android/commit/8d8cbf6e284bc67c4e8502a6238c83d2645b815e