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-rw-r--r--docs/html/guide/topics/manifest/uses-sdk-element.jd17
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/docs/html/guide/topics/manifest/uses-sdk-element.jd b/docs/html/guide/topics/manifest/uses-sdk-element.jd
index adcdc28..ee8d03d 100644
--- a/docs/html/guide/topics/manifest/uses-sdk-element.jd
+++ b/docs/html/guide/topics/manifest/uses-sdk-element.jd
@@ -3,7 +3,10 @@ page.title=<uses-sdk>
<dl class="xml">
<dt>syntax:</dt>
-<dd><pre class="stx">&lt;uses-sdk android:<a href="#min">minSdkVersion</a>="<i>integer</i>" /&gt;</pre></dd>
+<dd><pre>
+&lt;uses-sdk android:<a href="#min">minSdkVersion</a>="<i>integer</i>"
+ android:<a href="#max">maxSdkVersion</a>="<i>integer</i>"
+ android:<a href="#target">targetSdkVersion</a>="<i>integer</i>" /&gt;</pre></dd>
<dt>contained in:</dt>
<dd><code><a href="{@docRoot}guide/topics/manifest/manifest-element.html">&lt;manifest&gt;</a></code></dd>
@@ -64,12 +67,16 @@ and minor versions).</p>
<dt><a name="target"></a>{@code android:targetSdkVersion}</dt>
<dd>An integer designating the API Level that the application is targetting.
- <p>With this attribute set, the application says that is is be able to run on
+ <p>With this attribute set, the application says that it is able to run on
older versions (down to {@code minSdkVersion}), but was explicitly tested to work
with the version specified here.
- Specifying this version allows the platform to disable compatibility
- code that is not required or enable newer features that are not
- available to older applications.</p>
+ Specifying this target version allows the platform to disable compatibility
+ settings that are not required for the target version (which may otherwise be turned on
+ in order to maintain forward-compatibility) or enable newer features that are not
+ available to older applications. This does not mean that you can program different
+ features for different versions of the platform&mdash;it simply informs the platform that you
+ have tested against the target version and the platform should not perform any extra
+ work to maintain forward-compatibility with the target version.</p>
<p>Introduced in: API Level 4</p>
</dd>