You're absolutely right. I upgraded Android Studio, added the fixes from the known issues, followed ur advice and all is well now.
I think the first time around when i upgraded to beta, i was trying a bunch of things to get it to work and went down the wrong line of fixes. I therefore arrived at the incorrect conclusion that targeting L ( minSdkVersion) was a requirement for using the new beta ><. Grr... I understand now, that it's a requirement only if you are targeting dev for L. Thanks Xav! On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 4:15 PM, Xavier Ducrohet <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 11:27 AM, Kaushik Gopal <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I use Android Studio solely for building my app. Traditionally, I've been >> aggressive about my updates to Android Studio because gradle allows me to >> divorce my build+release process from the IDE. >> >> The latests Android Studio Beta release 0.8.+ is clearly aimed at helping >> developers out with Android-L. There are some changes that make this a >> little difficult now: >> >> 1. minsdk required to be 20. This has been discussed largely and i found >> a thread >> http://www.reddit.com/r/androiddev/comments/297xli/howto_use_the_v21_support_libs_on_older_versions/ >> that >> I believe, would help me to target older versions. >> > > I'm not sure what you mean there. If you develop for L, then yes your > minSdkVersion will be forced to 'L' (not 20). However if you don't, there > will be no changes for you. > > >> 2. I currently use the v13 support library (since i support a minsdk >> version of 14+), so this cuts down on a lot of additional stuff that i >> don't require from the v4 & v7 support libraries (hello 64k method limit). >> But there doesn't exist a v13 library compatible with Android-L (yet) >> >> > You don't have to use the preview of version 21 of the support libs. Just > use 20 or 19.x and you'll be fine. > > >> So I guess, here's my question: Is the expectation that we wait until >> Android-L is released, before we update Android Studio, or can we expect to >> safely update to Android Studio 0.8.+ right now and expect to continue and >> release our apps in the interim to the play store targeting KitKat. >> >> > If you don't care about L, you can upgrade. > > >> Cheers. >> >> >> P.S: The demos for AS from Google I/O look really snazzy and the >> temptation to update is very strong. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "adt-dev" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > > > -- > Xavier Ducrohet > Android SDK Tech Lead > Google Inc. > http://developer.android.com | http://tools.android.com > > Please do not send me questions directly. Thanks! > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "adt-dev" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/adt-dev/1W_o3LEbjx8/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "adt-dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
