design android app,How to Use Material Design in Android App?

I've gone to the Android Developer documentation to see how I can use material design, here:

https://developer.android.com/training/material/theme.html

and here:

https://developer.android.com/training/material/get-started.html

Essentially, I would like for someone to summarize how to set up/use material design, because I feel like there is a lot of information on the developer docs, and I can't seem to wrap my mind around it.

If you'd rather give me a link to a guide created by someone else, that'd be helpful as well.

I'm also using API level 19 (target SDK version 19) and from what I can see, I'll need to use com.android.support:cardview-v7:21.0.+

I'm also using Android Studio, and not eclipse.

EDIT: I would like to be able to use material design for devices that are not running Android 5.0 Lollipop, because according to the Android distribution data, there are less than 0.1% of devices running Lollipop: Android Distribution Data