Installing cordova with older android SDK version

Question

I have an android project build up on cordova 3.6.3. I'm trying to upgrade it to 5.2.2 from scratch. However, I have a problem with the android SDK.

The process I'm using is:

cordova create hello com.example.hello HelloWorld
cd hello
cordova platform add android --save
cordova build android

And what I receive is:

Creating Cordova project for the Android platform:

Path: platforms/android
Package: com.example.hello
Name: HelloWorld
Activity: MainActivity
Android target: android-23

So the Android target is the SDK23. In my project I'm using some libraries such as org.apache.cordova.CordovaWebViewClient which have been deprecated since SDK 21. As a consequence I'm trying to create the cordova on SDK 20 and not on 23.

Is there any way to do that from the cordova cli or in another way?

Thanks

Answer 1

If you want your target API version to be different then change it in ANdroidManifest.xml

<uses-sdk
    android:minSdkVersion="16"
    android:targetSdkVersion="20" />

Edit these lines. Here android:targetSdkVersion is your Android version that you are targeting.