Can the Android drawable directory contain subdirectories?

Question

In the Android SDK documentation, all of the examples used with the @drawable/my_image xml syntax directly address images that are stored in the res/drawable directory in my

Answer 1

Gradle with Android Studio could do it this way (link).

It's in the paragraph "Configuring the Structure"

sourceSets {
 main {
    java {
        srcDir 'src/java'
    }
    resources {
        srcDir 'src/resources'
    }
 }
}

Answer 2

Actually, on Android Studio it is possible. You can have nested resources as shown here :

There is also a plugin to group resources here.

I recommend to avoid this though.

Answer 3

Yes - it does suck :) However you can use the assets folder and have sub directories in there and load images that way.

Answer 4

Check Bash Flatten Folder script that converts folder hierarchy to a single folder

Answer 5

With the advent of library system, creating a library per big set of assets could be a solution.

It is still problematic as one must avoid using the same names within all the assets but using a prefix scheme per library should help with that.

It's not as simple as being able to create folders but that helps keeping things sane...

Answer 6

There is a workaround for this situation: you can create a resVector (for example) folder on the same level as default res folder. There you can add any drawable-xxx resource folders there:

resVector
-drawable
-layout
-color

After that all you need is to add

sourceSets {
        main.res.srcDirs += 'src/main/resVector'
    }

into your build.gradle file (inside android { }).