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

• Step 1: Right click on layout - show in explorer
• Step 2: Open the layout folder and create the subfolders directly: layout_1, layout_2 ...
• Step 3: open layout_1 create folder layout (note: mandatory name is layout), open layout_2 folder create layout subdirectory (note: mandatory name is layout) ...
• Step 4: Copy the xml files into the layout subdirectories in layout_1 and layout_2
• Step 5: Run the code in buid.grade (module app) and hit sync now:

---

sourceSets {
    main {
        res.srcDirs =
            [
                'src / main / res / layout / layout_1'
                'src / main / res / layout / layout_2',
                'src / main / res'
            ]
    }
}

• Step 6: Summary: All the steps above will only help clustering folders and display in 'project' mode, while 'android' mode will display as normal.
• So I draw that maybe naming prefixes is as effective as clustering folders.