title: Using Android L Material Design on KitKat
body: <p>Reading the Compatibility section of Android L Developer Preview (<a href="http://developer.android.com/preview/material/compatibility.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://developer.android.com/preview/material/compatibility.html</a>) I've seen that i can create an APP using L-sdk and also be able to run it on older sdk (like KitKat).</p>
  
  <p>I've created a new project using Android L sdk and configured "build.gradle" as said in this post: <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24465289/android-studio-failure-install-failed-older-sdk">Android Studio : Failure [INSTALL_FAILED_OLDER_SDK]</a>. </p>
  
  <p>I've tried both the configurations: </p>
  
  <ul>
  <li><p>the one proposed in question that gives me this error:</p>
  
  <p><code>pkg: /data/local/tmp/com.example.{my user name}.materialapp
  Failure [INSTALL_FAILED_OLDER_SDK]</code></p></li>
  <li><p>and the one proposed in answer that gives me error on </p>
  
  <p><code>&lt;style name="AppTheme" parent="android:Theme.Material.Light"&gt;&lt;/style&gt;</code></p></li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>I've searched on others question on StackOverflow but I can't find no solutions.</p>
  
  <p>SOLUTION:
  Android L <strong>preview</strong> material style can be used only on devices that run Android L.
  The "compatibility" is only a preview and it's not enabled.</p>