mipmaps

I'm using Android Asset Studio to generate my launcher icon and I've seen that the output is now creating mipmap folders instead of drawable folders. Since mipmap support has been added since Android 4.2 and my application is targeting ICS 4.0.3 (API 15). Is it safe to use them ? and then don't have any ic_launcher icon in drawables folders ? update I confirm it's working fine. You can only use mipmap folders for Application icon Mipmap folder support was added in Android SDK 11 or Honeycomb. This means that you can use the Mipmap folder from Android version 3.0 and above, including version 4

Since Android 4.3 (Jelly Bean) we can now make use of the res/mipmap folders to store "mipmap" images. For example, Chrome for Android stores its icons in these folders instead of the more normal res/drawable folders. How are these mipmap images different from the other familiar drawable images? I see that in my manifest, we use the @mipmap/ qualifier, instead of @drawable/ , which makes sense given the resource folder name: <activity android:name=".MipmapDemp" android:icon="@mipmap/ic_launcher" /> References: The Android 4.3 APIs document has the following to say: Using a mipmap as the source