"Android studio - Invalid App-Engine SDK Path" on WIN8.1 X64

[abstractcats]

Hi guys, I keep getting this message. I found one suggestion:
"In Android Studio, click on:

File > Settings

Then click on Plugins (on the left), and uncheck "Google Cloud Tools For Android Studio". ThenApply.

It asks you to restart Android Studio. Click on Restart and it will work now."

But, no luck. Any ideas ?
Thanks, Scott

[wasi]

This sounded reasonable (the two posts at the end, not the one with the suggestion you already tried):

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2263 ... e-sdk-path

[abstractcats]

This sounded reasonable (the two posts at the end, not the one with the suggestion you already tried):

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2263 ... e-sdk-path

Thanks. I tried that, but no luck....BUT!
I tried coping the paths from my WIN7 machine, and pasted them into the path fields in the SKD manager on my WIN8 machine and it worked, for my first issue. But, I now get this message
"Error:Execution failed for task ':app:processDebugManifest'.
> Manifest merger failed : uses-sdk:minSdkVersion 8 cannot be smaller than version 9 declared in library [com.android.support:appcompat-v7:24.2.1] C:\Users\AbstractCats\AndroidStudioProjects\MyApplication6\app\build\intermediates\exploded-aar\com.android.support\appcompat-v7\24.2.1\AndroidManifest.xml
Suggestion: use tools:overrideLibrary="android.support.v7.appcompat" to force usage"

But, every thing else, seems to work just fine.