How do you build and deploy to an older version of android for ionic / cordova

Question

Using Ionic 1.0.0 beta-8

After creating a new app, I built and deployed it to a Nexus 5 emulator and it worked fine. But when I tried to debug it on my Android 2.2 p

Answer 1

this question is similar to yours. stackoverflow

go to your AndroidManifest.xml, find these to control your sdk buildversion.

 // value is the API LEVEL

*targetSdk = tell phonegap which android build version to use,
*MinSdk is to limit user who want to download it.
check the API LEVEL of android build here.

In Your case: for android 2.2, use value= 8(API level 8)

     //android 2.2
     //android 4.2

NOTE: I doubt android 2.2(API level 8) can run API level 17(android 4.2).