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Question

How do I prevent the two warnings below from generating an error that stops the build process ?

-compile:
    [javac] Compiling 77 source files to /Users/andev/W         


        

Answer 1

Another possibility (which will fix it for all Android builds made with Ant), is to tweak the default parameters for the -compile task in \tools\ant\build.xml.

At the section, you can either set the compiler flags:

or, alternatively, change the source and target parameters:

As of now, 1.6 is enough to avoid the warning.