Can the Android layout folder contain subfolders?

Question

Right now, I\'m storing every XML layout file inside the \'res/layout\' folder, so it is feasible and simple to manage small projects, but when there is a case of large and

Answer 1

The top answer by @eski is good, but the code is not elegant to use, so I wrote a groovy script in gradle for general use. It's applied to all build type and product flavor and not only can be use for layout, you can also add subfolder for any other resources type such as drawable. Here is the code(put it in android block of project-level gradle file)：

sourceSets.each {
    def rootResDir = it.res.srcDirs[0]
    def getSubDirs = { dirName ->
        def layoutsDir = new File(rootResDir, dirName)
        def subLayoutDirs = []
        if (layoutsDir.exists()) {
            layoutsDir.eachDir {
                subLayoutDirs.add it
            }
        }
        return subLayoutDirs
    }
    def resDirs = [
            "anims",
            "colors",
            "drawables",
            "drawables-hdpi",
            "drawables-mdpi",
            "drawables-xhdpi",
            "drawables-xxhdpi",
            "layouts",
            "valuess",
    ]
    def srcDirs = resDirs.collect {
        getSubDirs(it)
    }
    it.res.srcDirs = [srcDirs, rootResDir]
}

How to do in practice?

For example, I want to create subfolder named activity for layout, add a string by any name in resDirs variable such as layouts, then the layout xml file should be put in res\layouts\activity\layout\xxx.xml.

If I want to create subfolder named selectors for drawable, add a string by any name in resDirs variable such as drawables, then the drawable xml file should be put in res\drawables\selectors\drawable\xxx.xml.

The folder name such as layouts and drawables is defined in resDirs variable, it can be any string. All subfolder created by you such as activity or selectors are regarded as the same as res folder. So in selectors folder, we must create drawable folder additionally and put xml files in drawable folder, after that gradle can recognize the xml files as drawable normally.