Is there a way to organise the res folder in android?

Question

I have a lot of files in /res/raw. Is there some way to organise this folder? Simply arranging into directories makes them invisible to R.raw.

Answer 1

Sub-directories are not allowed within the Android resource folders. It is certainly inconvenient.

Previously discussed: Can the Android drawable directory contain subdirectories?

Answer 2

Assets

Especially if you don't need a reference in your R class, (and no internationalization) use the assets folder.

InputStream inStream = getAssets().open("subfolder/filename.txt");
BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(inStream));

It is meant to be on the same level as your res/java folder: src/main/assets/

Since you asked for the raw folder, there is a good chance this is what you want to use anyways.