I am still new to Android development and just decided to study. however, I encounter some problems that lead me to the nut in a couple of hours. I just want to create a new project with this setting

the problem is that I cannot create a new empty activity with it, it says that it requires a version of the API for the assembly equal to at least 14, and the current version is 8

I just want to try to create an application that supports Android 2.2 (API 8) and beyond .. what is now just impossible to create Android-compatible applications with an empty activity template? so to use the empty activity template, should I use Android 4.0 (API 14)? it is right?