Is Android Studio backward compatible?

[morsan]

Just starting learning Android Studio and this is my first post!

I have installed both AS v2.3.3 and 3.0 beta 6. I am taking a course from lynda.com that uses samples made in AS v2.2.2 and when importing the sample code I get a lot errors.

Is the code not backwards compatible, or do I have to install v2.2.2 to follow along the samples?

 

[Deleted User]

Hi and welcome to Android Forums.
I moved your post over to the Android Development forum.

There should be no problem importing your project to a newer version of Android Studio. As long as all the required SDK versions are present, then the project should build ok.
What sort of errors are you seeing?

 

[morsan]

Please check the screenshot from AS 2.3.3. I notice there are references to AS 3.0 in both the gradle sync messages and the event log. I do not understand why that occur? If I start a new project from scratch I get no errors.

Please find attached the sample project (it has two states: start and finish). I opened the project like this: