Importing project gave Unable to resolve target ‘android-7’

When you try to import an already existing android project in your eclipse, sometimes you tend to get the error €œUnable to resolve target ‘android-7€.  This is simple and nothing wrong in your source file or your activity file. The problem is with the SDK version you have specified.

Let us consider I am setting my minimum SDK for my application as 7, so my project properties will have the line target=android-7.

Problem:

Now if you are trying to import this project in another system which doesn’€™t have API 7 then eclipse will throw an error, Unable to resolve target ‘android-7’

Solution:

To do this, you have 2 options:

• You can download API 7 for your application using SDK manager to run your application only on Android API 7. So you have to set your manifest file with the SDK version as follows.

OR

• You don’t have the API level 7 downloaded. You can right click the project and go properties->android and select another available API. As long as you don’t change the min sdk version in your manifest you are still targeting as many devices as before.

In the latter case, your application will run on any targeted devices with API ranging above 8 and till API 15.