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• atilim Maintainer

  December 2011 edited December 2011

  Yes, it's possible
  
  1. Upgrade project to Android 2.2
  - change 'target=android-7' to 'target=android-8' at project.properties file
  - change 'minSdkVersion="7"' to 'minSdkVersion="8"' at AndroidManifest.xml file
  2. add 'android:installLocation="preferExternal"' to AndroidManifest.xml as explained here: http://developer.android.com/guide/appendix/install-location.html
  
  Unfortunately, there are 2 .so files for ARMv6 and ARMv7 and each is ~2.5mb. If you want, you can remove support for ARMv6. Also I'll try to decrease the size of these .so files.
  
  Thank you,
  
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• gorkem Maintainer

  December 2011

  @Atilim is it possible to ask the user whether he wants only ARMv7 support or both ARMv6 and ARMv7, while exporting the Eclipse project ?

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• GregBUG Guru

  December 2011 edited December 2011

  @atilim thanks... I will try now ...
  @gorkem would be more comfortable ... !

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• atilim Maintainer

  December 2011

  @gorkem I agree. Also android version should be selectable.

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• Scouser Guru

  November 2012 edited November 2012

  @atilim: Sorry to necro this thread but I was wondering if it would be possible to add

  android:installLocation="preferExternal"

  to AndroidManifest.xml by default as apps are now beginning to exceed 20MB as a norm and would be better if they were installed to external storage as default.
  
  Also would it be possible to take the orientation of the app from the project file and use this setting in the exported AndroidManifest.xml

  android:screenOrientation="landscape"

  Both of these changes would make it easier for novices to get their app's running correctly (especially if they have ads in their app).
  

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• john26 Maintainer

  November 2012

  I'm glad you "necrod" this as I wasn't aware of this whole issue. It seems Gideros Android apps with the auto generated AndroidManifest.xml cannot be moved to external SD card. The above procedure at least gives the user the option of transferring to SD card.
  
  As for installing to card by default: not sure if this is possible... All of the apps I have install to main storage and then need to be transferred manually.

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• chipster123 Member

  November 2012

  @atilim, is it really 'target=android-7' as you stated?

  
  - change 'target=android-7' to 'target=android-8' at project.properties file
  

  or is it 'target=android-17' ?
  

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• Javi Member

  November 2012

  @chipster, it's correct, API level 7 (SDK 2.1) to API level 8 (SDK 2.2).

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• SinisterSoft Maintainer

  January 2013 edited January 2013

  I get a message to fix the project file whenever I first import though, it has something to do with changing it to android-17...

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