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custom Android Virtual Device: System UI Stopped, Launcher Stopped

I created an AVD with the properties below to emulate a customer's device. Each time I start it up, it gives the "Unfortunately, System UI stopped" dialog and, when dismissed, the "Unfortunately, Launcher stopped." dialog.
Tweaking the parameters (at least, those which don't alter the essential characteristics of the device) using advice from:
Android emulator error: "System UI has stopped"
Unfortunately System UI has stopped
Android 4.0 emulator always has a crashing Launcher?
https://daviddesmet.wordpress.com/2013/07/26/android-avd-unfortunately-system-ui-has-stopped/
results in the same outcome.
Variations tried
skin 320x320, 320x321
Google API / non Google API
heapsize 16, 32, 64, 128
mainkeys yes, no
keyboard yes, no
ncore 1, 2, 4
I'm eventually going to borrow a device but hope to get a head start on things before the project start date so would be extremely grateful to hear of any workarounds other than those already attempted.
config.ini
Name: 3.0_Motorola_MC3200_API_16
CPU/ABI: Google APIs Intel Atom (x86)
Path: C:\Users\me\.android\avd\3.0_Motorola_MC3200_API_16.avd
Target: google_apis [Google APIs] (API level 16)
Skin: 320x320
SD Card: C:\Users\me\.android\avd\3.0_Motorola_MC3200_API_16.avd\sdcard.img
hw.dPad: no
runtime.network.speed: full
hw.accelerometer: yes
hw.device.name: 3.0" Motorola MC3200
vm.heapSize: 128
skin.dynamic: yes
hw.device.manufacturer: User
hw.gps: no
hw.initialOrientation: Portrait
skin.path.backup: _no_skin
image.androidVersion.api: 16
hw.audioInput: yes
image.sysdir.1: system-images\android-16\google_apis\x86\
hw.keyboard.lid: yes
tag.id: google_apis
showDeviceFrame: no
hw.camera.back: emulated
hw.mainKeys: yes
AvdId: 3.0_Motorola_MC3200_API_16
hw.camera.front: emulated
hw.lcd.density: 160
avd.ini.displayname: 3.0 Motorola MC3200 API 16
hw.gpu.mode: auto
hw.device.hash2: MD5:799ea57969b556677321dbf45a563939
hw.ramSize: 1024
hw.trackBall: no
hw.battery: yes
hw.cpu.ncore: 4
hw.sdCard: yes
tag.display: Google APIs
runtime.network.latency: none
hw.keyboard: yes
hw.sensors.proximity: no
disk.dataPartition.size: 800M
hw.sensors.orientation: no
avd.ini.encoding: UTF-8
hw.gpu.enabled: yes
Logcat extract: System UI stopped
01-23 12:31:05.364 1401-1453/system_process D/Tethering: MasterInitialState.processMessage what=3
01-23 12:31:11.584 1401-1414/system_process W/ActivityManager: Activity idle timeout for ActivityRecord{aedb9d20
com.android.launcher/com.android.launcher2.Launcher}
01-23 12:31:11.724 1401-1414/system_process W/ActivityManager: Launch timeout has expired, giving up wake lock!
01-23 12:31:12.234 1401-1414/system_process W/ActivityManager: Activity idle timeout for ActivityRecord{aedbcc68
com.android.launcher/com.android.launcher2.Launcher}
01-23 12:31:21.514 1401-1415/system_process W/ActivityManager: Timeout executing service: ServiceRecord{aedd3bc8 com.android.systemui/.SystemUIService}
01-23 12:31:21.514 1401-1415/system_process I/ActivityManager: Crashing app skipping ANR: ProcessRecord{aedd43e8 1462:com.android.systemui/u0a35}
Executing service com.android.systemui/.SystemUIService
01-23 12:31:21.584 1401-1414/system_process W/ActivityManager: Activity destroy timeout for ActivityRecord{aedb9d20
com.android.launcher/com.android.launcher2.Launcher}
01-23 12:31:31.704 1158-1584/? I/SurfaceFlinger: Boot is finished (31860 ms)
01-23 12:31:31.704 1401-1434/system_process W/WindowManager: ***** BOOT TIMEOUT: forcing display enabled
01-23 12:31:41.574 1401-1489/system_process E/ThrottleService: problem during onPollAlarm: java.lang.IllegalStateException: problem parsing stats:
java.io.FileNotFoundException: /proc/net/xt_qtaguid/iface_stat_all: open failed: ENOENT (No such file or directory)
Logcat extract: Launcher Stopped
01-23 12:29:01.332 1407-1527/system_process I/ActivityManager: Start proc com.android.launcher for activity
com.android.launcher/com.android.launcher2.Launcher: pid=1793 uid=10019 gids={1028}
01-23 12:29:01.342 1793-1793/com.android.launcher E/Trace: error opening trace file: Permission denied (13)
01-23 12:29:01.352 1793-1793/com.android.launcher I/ActivityThread: Pub com.android.launcher2.settings: com.android.launcher2.LauncherProvider
01-23 12:29:01.372 1793-1793/com.android.launcher W/ResourceType: Failure getting entry for 0x7f03000d (t=2 e=13) in package 0 (error -75)
01-23 12:29:01.372 1793-1793/com.android.launcher D/AndroidRuntime: Shutting down VM
01-23 12:29:01.372 1793-1793/com.android.launcher W/dalvikvm: threadid=1: thread exiting with uncaught exception (group=0xae6de228)
01-23 12:29:01.372 1793-1793/com.android.launcher E/AndroidRuntime: FATAL EXCEPTION: main
java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo
{com.android.launcher/com.android.launcher2.Launcher}: android.content.res.Resources$NotFoundException: Resource ID #0x7f03000d
at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2059)
at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2084)
at android.app.ActivityThread.access$600(ActivityThread.java:130)
at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1195)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:137)
at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4745)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:511)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run
(ZygoteInit.java:786)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:553)
at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
Caused by: android.content.res.Resources$NotFoundException: Resource ID #0x7f03000d
at android.content.res.Resources.getValue(Resources.java:1013)
at android.content.res.Resources.loadXmlResourceParser(Resources.java:2103)
at android.content.res.Resources.getLayout(Resources.java:852)
at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:394)
at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:352)
at com.android.internal.policy.impl.PhoneWindow.setContentView
(PhoneWindow.java:256)
at android.app.Activity.setContentView(Activity.java:1867)
at com.android.launcher2.Launcher.onCreate(Launcher.java:361)
at android.app.Activity.performCreate(Activity.java:5008)
at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1079)
at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2023)
at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2084) 
at android.app.ActivityThread.access$600(ActivityThread.java:130) 
at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1195) 
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99) 
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:137) 
at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4745) 
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method) 
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:511) 
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run
(ZygoteInit.java:786) 
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:553) 
at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method) 
01-23 12:29:01.392 1793-1795/com.android.launcher D/dalvikvm: GC_CONCURRENT freed 232K, 6% free 6147K/6535K, paused 11ms+0ms, total 14ms
01-23 12:29:01.392 1407-1590/system_process W/ActivityManager: Force finishing activity com.android.launcher/com.android.launcher2.Launcher
Environment
Android Studio 2.2.3
Windows 7 x64
Updates
I have removed and reinstalled SDK and Android Studio.
I am able to replicate this on 2 development machines (so far) so would be useful to discover if anyone else experiences this behaviour for this config.

Apache Cordova Facebook Plugin (latest version/current master) crashes my android app while initializing

I've created the sample app given in the latest version (current master) of Apache Cordova Facebook Plugin several times:
https://github.com/phonegap/phonegap-facebook-plugin
Currently, I'm working on Android only.
The first time I created this sample app (about two weeks ago) everything worked fine. I successfully logged in with my facebook account, posted a status to my wall and logged out (all the other actions worked fine as well).
But since than I've created this sample app several more times (in the exact same way), and it has never worked again (the last time I tried was today). In the new apps (with the very same code as the first app, which still works), I press "LOGIN WITH FACEBOOK", and my app crashes immediately. Sometimes the app doesn't crash immediately, and I can get the message "Argument 'session' cannot be null". Then I press "LOGIN WITH FACEBOOK" again, and the app crashes. Sometimes I can get this message several times before the app eventually crashes.
If I press "LOGOUT WITH FACEBOOK", I get the message: "No valid session found, must call init and login before logout".
I also don't think that the problem is that I have a wrong hash key or something like that, because I've been careful with the settings of the facebook app every time.
I also believe that I've installed the plugin correctly each time, because I've always done it the same way I did it the first time, which worked fine.
So how is it that in my latest attempts the session variable is NULL??
Why did it work only in the first time??
I'm very frustrated..
Edit:
Here is the relevant segment of the LogCat log:
D/ConnectPlugin( 7064): login FB
W/dalvikvm( 7064): VFY: unable to resolve static field 2130 (com_facebook_internet_permission_error_title) in Lcom/facebook/android/R$string;
D/dalvikvm( 7064): VFY: replacing opcode 0x60 at 0x0010
I/dalvikvm( 7064): DexOpt: unable to optimize static field ref 0x0851 at 0x18 in Lcom/facebook/AuthorizationClient;.checkInternetPermission
W/dalvikvm( 7064): VFY: unable to resolve static field 2120 (com_facebook_login_activity_layout) in Lcom/facebook/android/R$layout;
D/dalvikvm( 7064): VFY: replacing opcode 0x60 at 0x0003
W/dalvikvm( 7064): VFY: unable to resolve static field 2103 (com_facebook_login_activity_progress_bar) in Lcom/facebook/android/R$id;
D/dalvikvm( 7064): VFY: replacing opcode 0x60 at 0x0008
I/ActivityManager( 2112): START {intent.toShortString} from pid 7064
I/power ( 2112): *** acquire_dvfs_lock : lockType : 1 freq : 1000000
D/PowerManagerService( 2112): acquireDVFSLockLocked : type : DVFS_MIN_LIMIT frequency : 1000000 uid : 1000 pid : 2112 tag : ActivityManager
W/ActivityManager( 2112): mDVFSLock.acquire()
D/dalvikvm( 7064): GC_CONCURRENT freed 455K, 6% free 12931K/13639K, paused 4ms+5ms
W/PluginManager( 7064): THREAD WARNING: exec() call to FacebookConnectPlugin.login blocked the main thread for 207ms. Plugin should use CordovaInterface.getThreadPool().
D/CordovaActivity( 7064): Paused the application!
D/CordovaWebView( 7064): Handle the pause
D/FirewallPolicy( 2112): getURLFilterEnabled(true)
D/FirewallPolicy( 2112): isUrlBlocked - Policy disabled
D/webkit ( 7064): Firewall not null
D/FirewallPolicy( 2112): getURLFilterEnabled(true)
D/FirewallPolicy( 2112): isUrlBlocked - Policy disabled
I/ClipboardServiceEx( 2112): mCBPickerDialog enter case. MSG_DISMISS_DIALOG
D/webkit ( 7064): euler: isUrlBlocked = false
D/FirewallPolicy( 2112): getURLFilterEnabled(true)
D/FirewallPolicy( 2112): isUrlBlocked - Policy disabled
D/ActivityManager( 2112): Trying to launch applicationName
D/KeyguardViewMediator( 2112): setHidden false
I/ClipboardServiceEx( 2112): mCBPickerDialog enter case. MSG_DISMISS_DIALOG
D/AndroidRuntime( 7064): Shutting down VM
W/dalvikvm( 7064): threadid=1: thread exiting with uncaught exception (group=0x40c6c1f8)
E/AndroidRuntime( 7064): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
E/AndroidRuntime( 7064): java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com.facebook.android.R$layout
E/AndroidRuntime( 7064): at com.facebook.LoginActivity.onCreate(LoginActivity.java:57)
E/AndroidRuntime( 7064): at android.app.Activity.performCreate(Activity.java:4562)
E/AndroidRuntime( 7064): at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1053)
E/AndroidRuntime( 7064): at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1934)
E/AndroidRuntime( 7064): at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1995)
E/AndroidRuntime( 7064): at android.app.ActivityThread.access$600(ActivityThread.java:128)
E/AndroidRuntime( 7064): at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1161)
E/AndroidRuntime( 7064): at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
E/AndroidRuntime( 7064): at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:137)
E/AndroidRuntime( 7064): at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4514)
E/AndroidRuntime( 7064): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
E/AndroidRuntime( 7064): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:511)
E/AndroidRuntime( 7064): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:993)
E/AndroidRuntime( 7064): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:760)
E/AndroidRuntime( 7064): at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
W/ActivityManager( 2112): Force finishing activity com.yomama.test/com.facebook.LoginActivity
W/ActivityManager( 2112): Force finishing activity com.yomama.test/.Test
Another strange thing that happened to me yesterday was that I recompiled and re-installed (on my phone) the first working app, and suddenly it didn't work either (I got the same message after pressing "LOGIN WITH FACEBOOK", and then the app crashed). Then I recompiled and re-installed the app again, and it was working fine again. Weird.

Try the following steps (from this GitHub issue; had worked for me):
+### Android Setup without Eclipse (just CLI)
+Follow the steps above:
cordova create myApp
cd myApp/
cordova platform add android
cordova -d plugin add https://github.com/phonegap/phonegap-facebook-plugin.git --variable APP_ID="123456789" --variable APP_NAME="myApplication"
// add FacebookLib
echo "android.library.reference.2=com.phonegap.plugins.facebookconnect/FacebookLib" >> platforms/android/project.properties
cp platforms/android/local.properties platforms/android/com.phonegap.plugins.facebookconnect/FacebookLib
android update project -p platforms/android/
cd platforms/android/
ant clean
cd com.phonegap.plugins.facebookconnect/FacebookLib
ant clean
open -e AndroidManifest.xml
// change your minSdkVersion and your targetSdkVersion to your environment settings.
ant release
cd ../../../..
cordova build android
With this steps you can add the Plugin without using Eclipse

app engine connected android project not working

I've followed the wizard to produce an 'app engine connected android project' and using instructions from https://developers.google.com/eclipse/docs/endpoints-androidconnected-gae.
The only additions I have made to what is auto-generated are setting the api key, setting process number, setting LOCAL_ANDROID_RUN to true.
Appengine dev server starts fine and all as it should be on localhost:8888
Android app deploys fine to emulator (running google apis as target).
But when I click to register I get
'Sorry! The application VillageTest (process com.villagetest) has
stopped unexpectedly. Please try again.'
with a button to 'force close'.
Logcat is as follows:
03-27 16:19:02.098: D/dalvikvm(422): GC_FOR_MALLOC freed 5074 objects / 389216 bytes in 75ms
03-27 16:19:02.288: V/GCMBaseIntentService(422): Releasing wakelock
03-27 16:19:02.288: W/dalvikvm(422): threadid=9: thread exiting with uncaught exception (group=0x4001d800)
03-27 16:19:02.298: E/AndroidRuntime(422): FATAL EXCEPTION: IntentService[GCMIntentService-405986951973-1]
03-27 16:19:02.298: E/AndroidRuntime(422): java.lang.NullPointerException
03-27 16:19:02.298: E/AndroidRuntime(422): at com.villagetest.GCMIntentService.onRegistered(GCMIntentService.java:144)
03-27 16:19:02.298: E/AndroidRuntime(422): at com.google.android.gcm.GCMBaseIntentService.handleRegistration(GCMBaseIntentService.java:251)
03-27 16:19:02.298: E/AndroidRuntime(422): at com.google.android.gcm.GCMBaseIntentService.onHandleIntent(GCMBaseIntentService.java:153)
03-27 16:19:02.298: E/AndroidRuntime(422): at android.app.IntentService$ServiceHandler.handleMessage(IntentService.java:59)
03-27 16:19:02.298: E/AndroidRuntime(422): at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
03-27 16:19:02.298: E/AndroidRuntime(422): at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:123)
03-27 16:19:02.298: E/AndroidRuntime(422): at android.os.HandlerThread.run(HandlerThread.java:60)
Please help. It's driving me crazy!!

The problem appears to be in your implementation of GCMIntentService (at GCMIntentService.java line 144). I suggest you post or look at that line in your code.
Have you followed the instructions for implementing GCM in your app:
http://developer.android.com/google/gcm/gs.html
Most specifically, Step 3?
Also, note that someone else posted almost exactly the same question yesterday...
app engine(eclipse): can't register device from android emulator to endpoint
You appear to be experiencing the exact same problem and he has now posted his line 144. I'm going to follow up there.

This is fixed in the latest version of GPE (3.2.2) released today. The problem had to do with a missing null check in the case where you'd never registered your device with the endpoint before.

Failure in running HelloWorld cocos2dx

I'm newbie.
Trying to run HelloWorld example comming with cocos2dx (cocos2d-2.0-rc2-x-2.0.1),
Android SDK 20.0.1, Android NDK r8, on 64bit Linux machine (openSuse 12.1).
When running emulation from Eclipse got following exception:
W/dalvikvm( 644): threadid=13: thread exiting with uncaught exception (group=0x40a13300)
E/AndroidRuntime( 644): FATAL EXCEPTION: GLThread 77
E/AndroidRuntime( 644): java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: No configs match configSpec
E/AndroidRuntime( 644): at android.opengl.GLSurfaceView$BaseConfigChooser.chooseConfig(GLSurfaceView.java:863)
E/AndroidRuntime( 644): at android.opengl.GLSurfaceView$EglHelper.start(GLSurfaceView.java:1024)
E/AndroidRuntime( 644): at android.opengl.GLSurfaceView$GLThread.guardedRun(GLSurfaceView.java:1401)
E/AndroidRuntime( 644): at android.opengl.GLSurfaceView$GLThread.run(GLSurfaceView.java:1240)
D/gralloc_goldfish( 644): Emulator without GPU emulation detected.
Any ideas?

for 2.0, you need to run on a device because the Emulator does not support OpenGL 2.0
for those are interested in how to get OpenGL 2.0 runs on Emulator, here is the link http://www.cocos2d-x.org/boards/6/topics/12563

Android Hello World app crashes: IllegalArgumentException from Surface.lockCanvasNative

I am trying to run the simplest Hello World example app and looks like I can crash it even all it does is showing a TextView.
Steps to reproduce: Launch it in the emulator (1.5). Open the app - it shows the text view, then lock the phone by pressing "end call" button. Unlock by pressing "menu", then press "back". App crashes with "The process android.process.acore has stopped unexpectedly..." and Force Close button. It does not happen all the time, but I am able to reproduce it every time after wiping the user data at least.
I wonder if default Hello World is missing a detail which was considered too advanced for a hello world... Such problems with a basic example does not look very encouraging =)
Any idea what detail is missing and how to avoid this crash?
Stack (I've truncated timestamps):
37.478: DEBUG/KeyguardViewMediator(576): wakeWhenReadyLocked(82)
37.481: DEBUG/KeyguardViewMediator(576): handleWakeWhenReady(82)
37.481: DEBUG/KeyguardViewMediator(576): pokeWakelock(5000)
39.110: DEBUG/KeyguardViewMediator(576): pokeWakelock(5000)
39.140: WARN/InputManagerService(576): Window already focused, ignoring focus gain of: com.android.internal.view.IInputMethodClient$Stub$Proxy#436e3fc0
40.990: ERROR/IMemory(679): binder=0x238aa8 transaction failed fd=-2147483647, size=0, err=-2147483646 (Unknown error: 2147483646)
40.990: ERROR/IMemory(679): cannot dup fd=-2147483647, size=0, err=-2147483646 (Bad file number)
40.990: ERROR/IMemory(679): cannot map BpMemoryHeap (binder=0x238aa8), size=0, fd=-1 (Bad file number)
40.990: ERROR/Surface(679): Couldn't map Surface's heap (binder=0x238aa8, heap=0x238b00)
40.990: DEBUG/AndroidRuntime(679): Shutting down VM
40.990: WARN/dalvikvm(679): threadid=3: thread exiting with uncaught exception (group=0x4000fe70)
40.990: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(679): Uncaught handler: thread main exiting due to uncaught exception
40.990: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(679): java.lang.IllegalArgumentException
40.990: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(679): at android.view.Surface.lockCanvasNative(Native Method)
40.990: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(679): at android.view.Surface.lockCanvas(Surface.java:196)
40.990: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(679): at android.view.ViewRoot.draw(ViewRoot.java:1175)
40.990: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(679): at android.view.ViewRoot.performTraversals(ViewRoot.java:1030)
40.990: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(679): at android.view.ViewRoot.handleMessage(ViewRoot.java:1482)
40.990: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(679): at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
40.990: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(679): at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:123)
40.990: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(679): at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:3948)
40.990: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(679): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
40.990: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(679): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:521)
40.990: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(679): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:782)
40.990: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(679): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:540)
40.990: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(679): at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
41.000: INFO/Process(576): Sending signal. PID: 679 SIG: 3
41.000: INFO/dalvikvm(679): threadid=7: reacting to signal 3
41.030: ERROR/ActivityThread(576): Failed to find provider info for android.server.checkin
41.030: ERROR/Checkin(576): Error reporting crash: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Unknown URL content://android.server.checkin/crashes
41.070: INFO/dalvikvm(679): Wrote stack trace to '/data/anr/traces.txt'
50.940: WARN/ActivityManager(576): Launch timeout has expired, giving up wake lock!
50.980: WARN/ActivityManager(576): Activity idle timeout for HistoryRecord{4366ac40 {com.android.launcher/com.android.launcher.Launcher}}

sounds to me more like something wrong with your emulator. Why dont you delete your emulator and create a new one and try again with a fresh project.
Hope that will help you. BTW why are you using emulator on 1.5?? Start to build applications for min 2.1.
Good luck.