Android Studio Not Working while building App using AppCompat v23 and API21

Question

I am using Android 1.3 version and SDK for 5.0.1 I decrepeted it because whenever I build project it throws error.

Can anyone please tell in details how to do it..

Error:

Information:Gradle tasks [:app:assembleDebug]
:app:preBuild UP-TO-DATE
:app:preDebugBuild UP-TO-DATE
:app:checkDebugManifest
:app:preReleaseBuild UP-TO-DATE
:app:prepareComAndroidSupportAppcompatV72300Library UP-TO-DATE
:app:prepareComAndroidSupportSupportV42300Library UP-TO-DATE
:app:prepareDebugDependencies
:app:compileDebugAidl UP-TO-DATE
:app:compileDebugRenderscript UP-TO-DATE
:app:generateDebugBuildConfig UP-TO-DATE
:app:generateDebugAssets UP-TO-DATE
:app:mergeDebugAssets UP-TO-DATE
:app:generateDebugResValues UP-TO-DATE
:app:generateDebugResources UP-TO-DATE
:app:mergeDebugResources UP-TO-DATE
:app:processDebugManifest UP-TO-DATE
:app:processDebugResources
C:\Users\This-PC\AndroidStudioProjects\MyApplication\app\build\intermediates\exploded-aar\com.android.support\appcompat-v7\23.0.0\res\values-v23\values-v23.xml
Error:(2) Error retrieving parent for item: No resource found that matches the given name 'android:TextAppearance.Material.Widget.Button.Inverse'.
Error:(2) Error retrieving parent for item: No resource found that matches the given name 'android:Widget.Material.Button.Colored'.
Error:Execution failed for task ':app:processDebugResources'.
> com.android.ide.common.process.ProcessException: org.gradle.process.internal.ExecException: Process 'command 'C:\Users\This-PC\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk\build-tools\22.0.1\aapt.exe'' finished with non-zero exit value 1
Information:BUILD FAILED
Information:Total time: 1.701 secs
Information:3 errors
Information:0 warnings
Information:See complete output in console

and

Event Log Shows:

10:52:47 PM Platform and Plugin Updates: A new version of Android Studio is available! (show balloon)
10:52:48 PM Gradle sync started
10:53:22 PM Gradle sync failed: failed to find target android-22 : C:\Users\This-PC\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk
            Consult IDE log for more details (Help | Show Log)
11:06:43 PM Gradle sync started
11:06:49 PM Gradle sync completed
11:06:50 PM Executing tasks: [:app:generateDebugSources, :app:generateDebugAndroidTestSources]
11:07:03 PM Gradle build finished with 3 error(s) in 13s 912ms
11:09:47 PM Executing tasks: [:app:assembleDebug]
11:09:50 PM Gradle build finished with 3 error(s) in 2s 345ms
11:10:44 PM Throwable: Failed to fetch URL https://dl.google.com/android/repository/addons_list-2.xml, reason: Unknown Host dl.google.com
11:15:08 PM Error Report: Submitted
11:15:55 PM Executing tasks: [:app:assembleDebug]
11:15:57 PM Gradle build finished with 3 error(s) in 1s 992ms

Answer 1

You are using the appcompat (and other support libraries) v23 .
You have to compile your project with API 23.

Change in your build.gradle the compileSdkVersion to 23