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I want to create an Android app using API 8

 <uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="8"/>

I have a EditText control in which I want to type in right-to-left mode. There is a new property called textDirection which is support in API 17 and higher. But I want to know if there is anyway to make my app supports this property. I heard about some appcompat things but I couldn't figure out if android-support-v7-appcompat has something to do with it.

Will android-support-v7-appcompat solve my problem? cause I tried that and also Adding android.support.v4 to your Android application in IntelliJ IDEA. but none solved my problem.

Is there any other way to do it?

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    Why on gods green earth would you want to go trough any trouble to support android 2.2? At most [0.2% of all android users are on 2.2](https://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html). Of course you are free to do it, but I'm very curious why :-) It's like making programs backwards compatible for windows 95 – Tim Sep 18 '15 at 09:46
  • @TimCastelijns Even if I want to make it to API 15, I will still have the same problem. – Ghasem Sep 18 '15 at 10:25

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