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Android Build an Interactive Story App (Retired) The Model-View-Controller Pattern Creating the Story

Posted by John Weland
John Weland
42,478 Points

Android Studio and drawables

It seems Android Studio (or an API version) has deprecated drawables in favor of mipmap.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23935810/mipmap-drawables-for-icons/24066445#24066445

so where Ben says to place an image in the drawables folder you should use mipmap if your app folder structure has it e.g. drawables-mpdi should be mipmap-mpdi. when referencing them in code where Ben types (R.drawables.fileName) you should use (R.mipmap.fileName) if Android studio is giving you any grief.

1 Answer

James Simshaw
James Simshaw
28,738 Points
James Simshaw
James Simshaw
28,738 Points

Hello,

Actually drawables is still used, just not for icons. Mipmaps is only used for icons while drawables is still used for all other drawables that we might have(like all of the images that are used on each page of the app).

John Weland
John Weland
42,478 Points

OK thanks for the heads up. When I tried to use the folder structure provided by Ben Android Studio wasn't loading them properly (drag /drop) once I put them in mipmap it worked. There is still the misleading issue where drawables is crossed out and when you hover it says its depricated. Hopefully they will clear this up in an AS release soon.

James Simshaw
James Simshaw
28,738 Points

The Resources.getDrawable(id) method has been deprecated in API 22 in favor of the Resources.getDrawable(id, theme) method, except that it isn't usable in previous SDKs so instead we have to use ContextCompat.getDrawable(context, id) instead.