If you are designing your app to be minSdkVersion 10 and you add a
dependency on a library that's 11, it should break your build, not silently
update your app manifest to 11.


On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 10:18 AM, Malachi de AElfweald <
mala...@playhaven.com> 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 <x...@android.com> 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 <
>> mala...@playhaven.com> 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 <x...@android.com>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 <mazur.ro...@gmail.com>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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