This is likely because you haven’t set your compileSdkVersion to 21 in your build.gradle file. You also probably want to change your targetSdkVersion to 21. android { //… compileSdkVersion 21 defaultConfig { targetSdkVersion 21 } //… } This requires you to have downloaded the latest SDK updates to begin with. Once you’ve downloaded all the … Read more
Lots of good questions, let’s dig in. 🙂 How do you use it? Here’s a great tutorial for interacting with the Storage Access Framework in KitKat: https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/providers/document-provider.html#client Interacting with the new APIs in Lollipop is very similar. To prompt the user to pick a directory tree, you can launch an intent like this: Intent intent … Read more
The accepted answer is not (entirely) correct. Sure, it makes notification icons show in color, but does so with a BIG drawback – by setting the target SDK to lower than Android Lollipop! If you solve your white icon problem by setting your target SDK to 20, as suggested, your app will not target Android … Read more
I think you’re developing for Android Lollipop, but anyway include this line: <item name=”windowActionBar”>false</item> to your theme declaration inside of your app/src/main/res/values/styles.xml. Also, if you’re using AppCompatActivity support library of version 22.1 or greater, add this line: <item name=”windowNoTitle”>true</item> Your theme declaration may look like this after all these additions: <!– Base application theme. –> … Read more
Exception ‘open failed: EACCES (Permission denied)’ on Android