phonegap 3.0 wants android 17, but I want android 18

Question

While experienced with phonegap and xcode, I\'m new to android. I have installed phonegap 3.0 ...

npm install phonegap
phonegap --version
3.0.0-0.14.3
         


        

Answer 1

PhoneGap Build now supports an option to set the Android SDK version. It is documented here but basically what you need in config.xml is:

It will then set the property correctly in AndroidManifest.xml.

Note: This supposedly only works for PhoneGap build, but I am using the Ionic command line tools (on Cordova 5.1.1) and it appears to work fine for me too.