Indeed, we could have a mechanism to tell the build that you know what you
are doing and will only use the library on devices running 11+.

We'll have to see what the DSL looks like.



On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 10:23 AM, Jake Wharton <[email protected]>wrote:

> I'd say that the build should fail unless you explicitly acknowledge and
> opt-out of the sanity check on a per-library basis in your build file.
>
> There's no reason you can't use a library with a minSdkVersion higher than
> yours so long as you do it carefully. It's the same with using platform
> APIs that are newer than your minimum.
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> On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 10:18 AM, Malachi de AElfweald <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> So if I declare minSdk as 10 in my application; but depend on a 3rd party
>> library that says minSdk is 11... What is the recommended solution?
>> It seems that the best option would be to force the build to be minSdk 11
>> and explain why in the logs -- rather than preventing the use of the 3rd
>> party library?
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 10:05 AM, Xavier Ducrohet <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>>> The minSdkVersion should always be the one declared in the app, and all
>>> libraries should be equals or lesser then the app one.
>>>
>>> Formatting/Order, yes we should fix it to make it work better.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 10:01 AM, Malachi de AElfweald <
>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Another area to address with the manifest merging might be max(minSdk)
>>>> of all the libraries?
>>>>
>>>> Or making sure that things are grouped (permissions at the top, for
>>>> example) rather than intermixed when there are multiple libraries...?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 9:54 AM, Xavier Ducrohet <[email protected]>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Not at the moment, but this is something we want to do. I'm currently
>>>>> writing a spec for it actually. Work on it should start in a few weeks I
>>>>> think, as we realize that the current merger shows some big limitations.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 3:56 AM, Roman Mazur <[email protected]>wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Does Android Gradle plugin provide any instruments for controlling
>>>>>> how manifest is merged?
>>>>>> Particularly I'm interested whether there is a way to exclude some
>>>>>> components declared in libraries from the final manifest.
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