Is there any need to use different drawable folder version?

Issue

I have a app. Its minSdkVersion 23.

In start I put some of my drawable items in drawable-v24. Everything goes fine untill, I test my app on sdk version 23(Android version 6). It crash my app by giving error Resources Not found. So I move my drawable item from v24 to normal drawable folder. App works fine on Android Version 6. It still running fine on android version 8.1 and 10.

So my question is

What's the importance of drawable-v24 folder. My app is working fine even there is no item in v24 folder. I read on Internet, they say different drawable folder's are for different screen density.

In another words Question can be

Is it okey to just put all my drawable item in simple drawable folder?

Solution

Yes, it's okay to just put all your drawable items in the drawable folder.

You may use these versioned folders (e.g. drawable-v24) to store different drawable items for different API Versions. yet you must have a drawable item with the same name in the simple drawable folder, therefore you won't receive a "Resources Not found" error while your app is running on a device with a lower API level.

Answered By - Amin Takhti