Error: minsdk argument does not match the api that is compiled against

[Petar-Luketina]

I got this error while building a Python 2.7 android app:

WARNING: --minsdk argument does not match the api that is compiled against.
Only proceed if you know what you are doing, otherwise use --minsdk=21 or
recompile against api 19
You must pass --allow-minsdk-ndkapi-mismatch to build with --minsdk different to
the target NDK api from the build step

Does anyone have any insight into this error? Is minsdk new, because I never included it in my previous apps. Thank you in advance!

Buildozer spec:

# (int) Android API to use
android.api = 27
# (int) Minimum API required
android.minapi = 19
# (int) Android SDK version to use
android.sdk = 23
# (str) Android NDK version to use
android.ndk = 16b

[AndreMiras]

Yes things have changed recently in p4a.
Can you try android.minapi = 21 as suggested in your spec and see if it works?

[Petar-Luketina]

Hey @AndreMiras , I get this error when I do that:

IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: u'/home/pl/Desktop/blind/.buildozer/android/platform/build/dists/blindgames1/build/outputs/apk/blindgames1-debug.apk'

Any ideas?

[AndreMiras]

Yes I think these path have moved recently, see kivy/python-for-android#1507
Try: find .buildozer/ -name "*.apk"

[Petar-Luketina]

hmm... So the apk is complete, but in the wrong place?

[AndreMiras]

That's more or less the idea. Well try to delete your .buildozer/ directory and build again, also make sure you run on p4a.branch = master.
If it still fails, share the output of the find command above.

[Petar-Luketina]

I followed the steps, and I still go the same error. My apk is here:
.buildozer/android/platform/build/dists/blindgames1/build/outputs/apk/debug/blindgames1-debug.apk

What's this in the #1507 issue? sudo p4aspaces cmd p4a-py2-api19-ndkbundle testbuild --p4a https://github.com/opacam/python-for-android/archive/fix-ci-gradle.zip

Are you supposed to run this code to download his spec to test it? Apparently his works without a problem.

[AndreMiras]

In kivy/python-for-android#1507 we added the mode (e.g. debug/release) to the directory to pick the apk from.
https://github.com/kivy/python-for-android/pull/1507/files#diff-9386f079c34547ba8b06a93309463a72R852
I'm not too sure why it might not work with your build. But as a temporary workaround you could revert only the pythonforandroid/toolchain.py file and remove the args.build_mode.

[ghost]

@AndreMiras for the last person having this issue of the .apk being in the wrong place, using p4a clean_all fixed it. Basically, building once with an older p4a version, then using a newer p4a version on the existing distribution (without wiping the distribution folder) will trigger this error. Not sure adding a "fix" into the p4a codebase is worth the time, since the best thing to do is just a quick p4a clean_all and just repeating the build

[inclement]

Closing as apparently resolved.