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We are happy to announce that Cordova Android 4.1.0 has been released.

With this release, there is now support for checking system requirements for Android platform:

$>cordova requirements android

Requirements check results for android:
Java JDK: installed 1.7.0
Android SDK: installed
Android target: installed android-19,android-21,android-22,Google Inc.:Google APIs:19,Google Inc.:Google APIs (x86 System Image):19,Google Inc.:Google APIs:21
Gradle: installed 1.12

Apart from a number of bug fixes, mininumSdkTarget has also been switched to 14 from 7. The minimum supported Android OS for Cordova is now Ice Cream Sandwich.

To upgrade:

npm install -g cordova
cd my_project
cordova platform update android@4.1.0

To add it explicitly:

cordova platform add android@4.1.0

What's new in Android platform

• CB-9392 Fixed printing flavored versions. This closes #184.
• CB-9382 [Android] Fix KeepRunning setting when Plugin activity is showed. This closes #200
• CB-9391 Fixes cdvBuildMultipleApks option casting
• CB-9343 Split the Content-Type to obtain a clean mimetype
• CB-9255 Make getUriType case insensitive.
• CB-9149 Fixes JSHint issue introduced by 899daa9
• CB-9372: Remove unused files: 'main.js' & 'master.css'. This closes #198
• CB-9149 Make gradle alias subprojects in order to handle libs that depend on libs. This closes #182
• Update min SDK version to 14
• Update licenses. This closes #190
• CB-9185 Fix signed release build exception. This closes #193.
• CB-9286 Fixes build failure when ANDROID_HOME is not set.
• CB-9284 Fix for handling absolute path for keystore in build.json
• CB-9260 Install Android-22 on Travis-CI
• Adding .ratignore file.
• CB-9119 Adding lib/retry.js for retrying promise-returning functions. Retrying 'adb install' in emulator.js because it sometimes hangs.
• CB-9115 android: Grant Lollipop permission req
• Remove extra console message
• CB-8898 Report expected gradle location properly
• CB-8898 Fixes gradle check failure due to missing quotes
• CB-9080: -d option is not supported on Android 4.1.1 and lower, removing
• CB-8954 Adds requirements command support to check_reqs module
• Update JS snapshot to version 4.1.0-dev (via coho)
• CB-8417 updated platform specific files from cordova.js repo
• Adding tests to confirm that preferences aren't changed by Intents
• Forgot to remove the method that copied over the intent data
• Getting around to removing this old Intent code
• Update JS snapshot to version 4.1.0-dev (via coho)
• Fix CordovaPluginTest on KitKat (start-up events seem to change)
• CB-3360 Allow setting a custom User-Agent (close #162)
• CB-8902 Use immersive mode when available when going fullscreen (close #175)
• Make BridgeMode methods public (they were always supposed to be)
• Simplify: EncodingUtils.getBytes(str) -> str.getBytes()
• Don't show warning when gradlew file is read-only
• Don't show warning when prepEnv copies gradlew and it's read-only
• Make gradle wrapper prepEnv code work even when android-sdk is read-only
• CB-8897 Delete drawable/icon.png since it duplicates drawable-mdpi/icon.png
• Updating the template to target mininumSdkTarget=14
• CB-8894: Updating the template to target mininumSdkTarget=14
• CB-8891 Add a note about when the gradle helpers were added
• CB-8891 Add a gradle helper for retrieving config.xml preference values
• CB-8884 Delete Eclipse tweaks from create script