I am trying to compile an Ionic 2 application on an Android SDK Target 19 (Android 4.4).
Ionic 2 use Cordova.
When I install cordova with NPM, the last version is installed (6.5). When I add an android platform the target is set by Cordova to android-22.
I read in several posts that there is a configuration key in the config.xml which allow to force the Android target.
So I wrote this in my plugin.xml :
<platform name="android">
<preference name="android-targetSdkVersion" value="19"/>
</platform>
When I build, the target remain 22 !
I read on other posts that we have to edit some files generated by cordova :
- /platforms/android/project.properties
- /platforms/android/AndroidManfiests.xml
- /platforms/android/CordovaLib/project.properties
In this file, I replaced all the target=android-XX by android-19. I don't like this solution because all this files are generated by Cordova, so I haven't to edit them !
The only solution I found is given in the same post : install an old cordova (cordova version 3.5.0-0.2.7). This version come with Android-19 as default version.
So my question is : Is it possible to use the last cordova with an android target 19 ?
When I read the cordova documentation, I think that answer to this question is "YES". But how to do it ? Why changing targetSdkVersion in plugin.xml haven't any effect on files generated by Cordova ?
