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@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ Notepadbot is a sample application pulled from the standard Android samples code
 
 *** Building
 
-In order to build android-database-sqlcipher from source you will need both the Android SDK as well as Android NDK.  To complete the =make init= command, you will need the =android-7= platform installed from the SDK.  Once you have cloned the repo, change directory into the root of the repository and run the following commands:
+In order to build android-database-sqlcipher from source you will need both the Android SDK as well as Android NDK.  To complete the =make init= command, you will need the =android-19= platform installed from the SDK.  Once you have cloned the repo, change directory into the root of the repository and run the following commands:
 
 :  # this only needs to be done once
 :  make init