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

Not mine but I found this thread when looking for this issue, if your using Android Studio and Gradle Build system its pretty easy no plugins necessary just a little build file editing

https://stackoverflow.com/a/22426467/618419

Answer 2

create a folder in main. like: 'res_notification_btn'

and create tree folder in. like 'drawable' or 'layout'

then in 'build.gradle' add this

sourceSets
            {
                main
                {
                    res
                    {
                        srcDirs = ['src/main/res_notification_btn', 'src/main/res']
                      or
                        srcDir 'src/main/res_notification_btn'
                    }
                }
            }

Answer 3

I've wrote an eclipse plugin which allows to create virtual subfolder by separating the file name with two underscores __. The project is in early stages, but don't worry it won't crash your IDE

more details can be found here, feel free to fork and send pull requests:

https://github.com/kirill578/Android-Sorted-Res-Folder