if I ship in 6 months then I would set my minSdkVersion to 8 (Froyo), and targetSdkVersion to 14 (ICS). One of the cool things about Android is that you can ta

if I ship in 6 months then I would set my minSdkVersion to 8 (Froyo), and targetSdkVersion to 14 (ICS). One of the cool things about Android is that you can target so many devices. So I see no good reasons not to support the version that runs on most of the devices out there. http://developer.android.com/resources/dashboard/platform-versions.html http://developer.android.com/resources/dashboard/platform-ve... In any case I recommend to set the targetSdkVersion to level 11 or higher. Otherwise, your app won't have the holo theme or Actionbar if it's running on honeycomb or above.