How to use default Android drawables

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What is the best approach when using default Android drawables  Should I use android R drawable or should I copy the drawables in my project and use R drawable   Is there any risk  that in a newer version of Android  some of the default drawables are removed or resized  Or  affect in some negative way  the look of my app  Also  which of the drawables in the Android source code are considered  stable  and should be relied on   I d rather not copy the drawables because I think that the look of the app should be consistent with the Android version used  So  for example  for version 1 6 it should use the default Android bitmaps for version 1 6

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Better to use android R drawable because it is public and documented

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If you read through any of the discussions on the android development group you will see that they discourage the use of anything that isn t in the public SDK because the rest is subject to extensive change

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As far as i remember  the documentation advises against using the menu icons from android R drawable directly and recommends copying them to your drawables folder  The main reason is that those icons and names can be subject to change and may not be available in future releases       Warning  Because these resources can change between platform versions  you should not reference these icons using the Android platform resource IDs  i e  menu icons under android R drawable   If you want to use any icons or other internal drawable resources  you should store a local copy of those icons or drawables in your application resources  then reference the local copy from your application code  In that way  you can maintain control over the appearance of your icons  even if the system s copy changes     from  http   developer android com guide practices ui guidelines icon design menu html

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To use the default android drawable resource  no need copy anything   you can just import it first with    import android R    but i will make your own resources will have an error if you want to use it  The error will be something like       R  cannot be resolved   So  I prefer not to import android R but import  my own package  R   then when I can normally use my own resource with R drawable  something  without error  and put android R  something default  to use the default android resources

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Java Usage example  myMenuItem setIcon android R drawable ic menu save    Resource Usage example  android icon   android drawable ic menu save

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Better you copy and move them to your own resources  Some resources might not be available on previous Android versions  Here is a link with all drawables available on each Android version thanks to  fiXedd

[android] How to use default Android drawables

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