Android Studio drawable folders

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In Android Studio  I can t figure out where to put images to be used inside the app  The drawable folder isn t broken down into drawable-hdpi  drawable-ldpi  etc  I saw another question asking this and the answer was to switch to Project view instead of Android view but drawable is only one folder there too  There is mipmap-hdpi  mipmap-ldpi  etc  but people are saying that s only for app icons  I m confused

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If you don t see a drawable folder for the DPI that you need  you can create it yourself  There s nothing magical about it  it s just a folder which needs to have the correct name

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In Android Studio 1 2 1 1  Just copy the image and paste the image into the app   res   drawable folder and it will shows you  Choose Destination Directory  popup screen as shown below screen     Now you can select option whatever resolution you want to place and if you want to view the those image into the folders then simply right click on the drawable folder   select copy paths option and open it  It will help you

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This tool creates the folders with the images in them automatically for you  All you have to do is supply your image then drag the generated folders to your res folder  http   romannurik github io AndroidAssetStudio   All the best

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Just to make complete all answers   drawable  is  literally  a drawable image  not a complete and ready set of pixels  as  png  In other word words  drawable is only for vectorial images  just try right-click on  drawable  and go New   Vector Asset  it will accept it  while Image Asset won t be added   The data for  drawing   generating the image is recorded on a XML file like this    lt vector xmlns android  http   schemas android com apk res android      android width  24dp      android height  24dp      android viewportWidth  24 0      android viewportHeight  24 0  gt   lt path     android fillColor   FF000000      android pathData  M6 18c0 0 55 0 45 1 1 1h1v3 5c0 0 83 0 67 1 5 1 5 1 5s1 5      -0 67 1 5 -1 5L11 19h2v3 5c0 0 83 0 67 1 5 1 5 1 5s1 5 -0 67 1 5 -1 5L16      19h1c0 55 0 1 -0 45 1 -1L18 8L6 8v10zM3 5 8C2 67 8 2 8 67 2 9 5v7c0 0 83 0 67      1 5 1 5 1 5S5 17 33 5 16 5v-7C5 8 67 4 33 8 3 5 8zM20 5 8c-0 83 0 -1 5 0 67 -1 5      1 5v7c0 0 83 0 67 1 5 1 5 1 5s1 5 -0 67 1 5 -1 5v-7c0 -0 83 -0 67 -1 5 -1 5 -1 5zM15 53      2 16l1 3 -1 3c0 2 -0 2 0 2 -0 51 0 -0 71 -0 2 -0 2 -0 51 -0 2 -0 71 0l-1 48 1 48C13 85      1 23 12 95 1 12 1c-0 96 0 -1 86 0 23 -2 66 0 63L7 85 0 15c-0 2 -0 2 -0 51 -0 2 -0 71 0 -0 2      0 2 -0 2 0 51 0 0 71l1 31 1 31C6 97 3 26 6 5 01 6 7h12c0 -1 99 -0 97 -3 75 -2 47 -4 84zM10      5L9 5L9 4h1v1zM15 5h-1L14 4h1v1z   gt     lt  vector gt    That s the code for ic android black 24dp

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In order to create the drawable directory structure for different image densities  You need to    Right-click on the  res folder Select new  gt  android resource directory In the New Resource Directory window  under Available qualifiers resource type section  select drawable  Add density and choose the appropriate size

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Actually you have selected Android from the tab change it to project    Steps    Then you will found all folders

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There are two cases    If you are having a single image  irrespective of device version  then you should put your images in drawable folder   But for the images that you created separately for hdpi  ldpi  mdpi  xhdpi  xxhdpi and xxxhdpi  depending on screen resolution of the mobile that will be using the app  you have to puy them in drawable-hdpi  drawable-ldpi  drawable-mdpi  drawable-xhdpi  drawable-xxhdpi and drawable-xxxhdpi folders respectively    For the first case  if there is a single image  you can pretty much place it in any drawable folder  but its standard convention to put them in drawable folder

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Its little tricky in android studio there is no default folder for all screen size you need to create but with little trick    when you paste your image into drawable folder a popup will appear to ask      about directory  Add subfolder name after drawable like drawable-xxhdpi  I will suggest you to paste image with highest resolution it will auto detect for other size   thats it next time when you will paste it will ask to you about directory   i cant post image here so if still having any problem   here is tutorial    Drawable folder in android studio

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