Is support for Android API Level 36 planned for AIR SDK?

[Boycraft123]

Hello AIR SDK Team,

I am currently using AIR SDK 51.3.2 and have successfully migrated my Android application to ARM64.
I confirmed that AIR SDK 51.3.2 generates an APK with targetSdkVersion 35.

However, I noticed that the generated APK still uses targetSdkVersion 35, even when I specify a higher value in the application descriptor.

Could you please let me know if support for Android API Level 36 (targetSdkVersion 36 / compileSdkVersion 36) is planned for an upcoming AIR SDK release?

If there is already a recommended workaround or beta version that supports API Level 36, I would greatly appreciate any information.

It would be very helpful if support is expected in the near future.

Thank you for your time and for your continued work on AIR SDK.

[ajwfrost]

Hi

The targetSdk value should be solely determined by the value within the uses-sdk part of your app descriptor manifestAdditions - even if that's set to something higher/unknown. If it's missing, currently 35 is the default.

The compileSdk value has some additional dependencies on build tools and availability of the platform within the Android Studio / Gradle settings, along with similar restrictions depending on Java and Gradle versions.

Are you able to share the adt.log file, or copy the information from the Troubleshooting section of the AIR SDK Manager, so that we can see a little more what might be going on within the ADT process?

thanks

[Boycraft123]

Thank you for the suggestion.
I found that my application descriptor did not actually contain the uses-sdk entry.

After updating the manifestAdditions section and rebuilding the APK, Android Studio now shows:

targetSdkVersion="36"

However, compileSdkVersion is still reported as 34.

Do you know whether compileSdkVersion 36 is currently supported, or if any additional configuration is required?

Thanks again for your help.

[ajwfrost]

Do you have the android-36 platform available on your computer e.g. within ~/Library/Android/sdk/platforms or %LOCALAPPDATA%\Android\sdk\platforms? The compileSdk value should be taken from that.

From AIR namespace 51.1, there's also the option to have a value <androidCompileSdkVersion> within the <android> section of your app descriptor ... although looking at the ADT code, this does actually drop this value back to the highest-found platform if the requested value isn't actually found on the machine.

So I would suggest checking in Android Studio / Android SDK Manager to ensure you have the Android SDK Platform 36 component installed.

thanks

[Boycraft123]

Thank you very much for your help. Your suggestion worked perfectly! After installing the Android SDK Platform 36 and rebuilding the app, the compile SDK version is now correctly set to 36.

I really appreciate your quick response and clear explanation. It saved me a lot of time.

I plan to continue using HARMAN AIR for my projects, so I'm sure I'll be relying on it for years to come. Thanks again for your support.

Best regards,

[ajwfrost]

Thanks for confirming. It's a bit of a pain sometimes to get all the configurations and dependencies set up .. glad you got it working!

thanks