Is It Mandatory To Compile My App With Api 22 Lollipop?

My project compiles and runs fine with api 21 and when i try to compile it with api 22 i'm facing many errors from gradle (Error:In SherlockSpinner, unabl

Solution 1:

Compiling your application by defining particular compile SDK version is only required if you would want to use the features provided by that particular SDK version.

You can definitely compile with lower version and make it compatible for the higher version, but as said above you won't be able to use the new functionalities/features defined by higher version.