Why won't my emulator launch? *my first android app*

Question

I am writing my first android app. Literally, I haven't written a line of code yet. I am following a simple tutorial for setting up my dev environment (made by google) and every time that I try to launch my app (one that is auto-generated and does nothing) it fails.

When I try to 'run' the application directly from android studio without an emulator [API 17] open, I get no warning but nothing happens.

When I try to 'run' the application directly from android studio with an emulator [API 17] open, I get an error. The error states "Failure [INSTALL_FAILED_OLDER_SDK]"

To research this error, I tried to add lines to the build.gradle file that specifies the sdk version like so: defaultConfig { minSdkVersion 11 targetSdkVersion 19 }

this results in the gradle file not being able to be built.

I verified that my project settings have a lower minsdkversion set then my current emulators version.

I am not sure how to get this to actually run at this point. Realistically, environment setup should not be this difficult -- unless I am missing something.

Any advice?

Answer 1

Try opening your SDK manager and downloading all the APIs within your min-max android versions. You can try running your App for a single Api version to get started.