At I/O 2015, however, the Android Design Support Library was announced, which greatly simplifies the effort required to implement some of the Material Design widgets and techniques in Android apps.

Everytime you create a new project, you’ll need to add the MDC-Android library as a project dependency, although since the Material Component Library is a continuation of the Design Support ...

To make things even better, Google also released the Android Design Support Library, which allows you to take advantage of material design in versions of Android going all the way back to Android 2.1.