Any way to insert sub-directories in Drawable? (Android Studio)

Issue

I found that back in 2009, it was impossible to insert sub-directories for the Drawable folder (Can the Android drawable directory contain subdirectories?).

Since it has been more than ten years from then, I wonder if Android Studio ever updated a way to insert sub-directories to group images together. I added more than 80 images in the Drawable folder, and it's pretty bugging me... Thanks!

Solution

No, the Android resources mechanism doesn't support any custom directory or subdirectory yet (instead of the assets for example).

However, you can implement a structure similar to:

|--- res
|
|--- circles
|       |--- drawable
|               |--- my-circle.xml
|
|--- triangles
|       |--- drawable
|               |--- my-triangle.xml
|
|--- selectors
        |--- drawable
                |--- my-selector.xml

And with Gradle you can add src/main/circles, src/main/triangles and src/main/selectors to your res directories.

e.g.

android {
    sourceSets {
        main.res.srcDirs += ['src/main/circles', 'src/main/triangles', 'src/main/selectors']
    }
}

Answered By - Giorgio Antonioli