Organize Contents of drawable-hdpi (mdpi, ldpi, etc.) via folders

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My android project uses many images, and I have images for different DPIs as well. Currently, all the images reside in their respective folders in project, i.e. drawable-hdpi, drawable-ldpi and so on.

It works, but is it possible to have them organized in folders within their drawable folder? like:

drawable-hdpi
    > common
    > activity1
    > activity2


drawable-mdpi
    > common
    > activity1
    > activity2

And, I could access them as, R.drawable.common.image1, R.drawable.activity2.icon1, and so on.

You can do this only with Gradle http://stackoverflow.com/a/19859379 — Yair Kukielka, Apr 07 '14 at 08:10

score 4 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:20

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No, the resources mechanism doesn't support subfolders in the drawable directory, so - you need to keep that hierarchy flat.

Can the Android drawable directory contain subdirectories?

As of Android 2.2, this doesn't cause a compiler error, but any subdirectories are ignored when generating the R class. This really sucks, and makes it hard to manage larger projects.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:20

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answered Jun 21 '12 at 09:47

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My Sad :-( Also, didn't knew the question already has been asked. Thanks anyways. – Kushal Jun 21 '12 at 10:07

Organize Contents of drawable-hdpi (mdpi, ldpi, etc.) via folders

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