I Am Still Getting This Annoying Error Please Assist

Hi,

I have scaffolded the ionic2 sidemenu app, the default target framework is android 23 but I want to target android 19 so I changed the target framework in platforms/android/project.properties file and platforms/android/AndroidManifest.xml to target framework 19 - this is also what I have installed under my android sdk.

When I run ionic run android I get this error which I am unable to solve

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

  • What went wrong:
    A problem occurred configuring root project ‘android’.

A problem occurred configuring project ‘:CordovaLib’.
failed to find target with hash string ‘android-23’ in: C:\Program Files (x 86)\Android\android-sdk

  • Try:
    Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output.

BUILD FAILED

Total time: 5.375 secs

Error: cmd: Command failed with exit code 1 Error output:
FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

  • What went wrong:
    A problem occurred configuring root project ‘android’.

A problem occurred configuring project ‘:CordovaLib’.
failed to find target with hash string ‘android-23’ in: C:\Program Files (x 86)\Android\android-sdk

  • Try:
    Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output.

Please assist

You should not be editing the platforms/android/project.properties file, that is probably the root cause.

Instead you should be setting this in the config.xml

<preference name="android-minSdkVersion" value="19" />
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I tried your suggestion but I am still getting this error