How to build old Android project in Android Studio

Question

I've found an old git repo. It's an Android application for Sony System Cameras.

It's for Android SDK 10

The project can be found here: https://github.com/ma1co/PMCADemo

I'm not able to build it in the newest version of Android Studio. I've added the details to the following issue: https://github.com/ma1co/PMCADemo/issues/16

I hope that maybe here more people can help me, the repo is updated the last time in 2018.

Have you tried replacing the command in `versionCode` with a number like 40 and `versionName` with a dummy one & then try to sync the gradle? — SaadAAkash, Jul 20 '19 at 19:03
Yes and then I'm just getting another error :/ I can post the result tomorrow. — JoJ, Jul 20 '19 at 19:17

majurageerthan · Accepted Answer · 2019-07-20T20:11:03.107

I changed the following files, and it is working fine to me (You need to specify the Gradle plugin according to your android studio version, my version is 3.4)

gradle-wrapper.properties

#Sun Jul 21 00:42:34 IST 2019
distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
distributionPath=wrapper/dists
zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
zipStorePath=wrapper/dists
#distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-4.4-all.zip
distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-5.1.1-all.zip

build.gradle top level

    buildscript {
        repositories {
            jcenter()
            google()
        }
        dependencies {
            classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.4.0'
        }
    }

    allprojects {
        repositories {
            google()
            jcenter()
            maven {
                url "https://jitpack.io"
            }
        }
    }

build.gradle app level

apply plugin: 'com.android.application'

android {
    compileSdkVersion 28
//    buildToolsVersion "25.0.2"

    defaultConfig {
        applicationId "com.github.ma1co.pmcademo.app"
        minSdkVersion 18
        targetSdkVersion 28
        versionCode 1
        versionName "1.0"
        testInstrumentationRunner "android.support.test.runner.AndroidJUnitRunner"
        multiDexEnabled true
    }

//    compileOptions {
//        sourceCompatibility JavaVersion.VERSION_1_6
//        targetCompatibility JavaVersion.VERSION_1_6
//    }
}

//android.applicationVariants.all { variant ->
//    variant.outputs.each { output ->
//        def apkName = "PMCADemo-${output.baseName}-${variant.versionName}.apk"
//        output.outputFile = new File(output.outputFile.parent, apkName)
//    }
//}

dependencies {
    implementation 'com.github.ma1co.OpenMemories-Framework:framework:-SNAPSHOT'
    compileOnly 'com.github.ma1co.OpenMemories-Framework:stubs:-SNAPSHOT'
    implementation 'com.nanohttpd:nanohttpd:2.1.1'
}

It is my output

I've installed SDK10 and the Gradle build version in the SDK Manager, but no result — JoJ, Jul 20 '19 at 19:23
I'm able to build the application too with these changes thanks, but the camera need an Android Application with SDK Version 10. Is there a way to go back to version 10? — JoJ, Jul 21 '19 at 09:32
I've just changed the SDKVersions to 10 and the apk is also working on the camera. — JoJ, Jul 21 '19 at 09:38

How to build old Android project in Android Studio

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