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

It would appear that cdvCompileSdkVersion is used to determine build SDK and NOT targetSdkVersion as one would use in native android apps.