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Android

Posted by michael thomas
michael thomas
909 Points

For some reason when i open a project in Android Studio the drawable folder is empty with no sub folders. How do I fix

I can't find the sub folders in the Drawable folder. Im in the project view. I have uninstalled and reinstalled still the same issue please help.

4 Answers

Ricky Catron
Ricky Catron
13,023 Points
Ricky Catron
Ricky Catron
13,023 Points

You may need to refresh the project in order for it to notice the photos were there. This happens to me a lot with Pycharm.

Goodluck! --Ricky

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

Hello,

When you first create a project in Android Studio, the dpi based folders are not created automatically. You can create them manually and they should then show up.

michael thomas
michael thomas
909 Points

Okay i know this may sound stupid but how do i create them. Im a little lost as to how

James Simshaw
James Simshaw
28,738 Points

You can either add them using your system's file manager or from within Android Studio you can go to project view and right click on the res folder and select New, Android Resource Directory(or in this case just a regular directory might work easier).

michael thomas
michael thomas
909 Points
michael thomas
michael thomas
909 Points

thanks a lot James I will give it a shot and let you know tomorrow how it turned out

michael thomas
michael thomas
909 Points

Hi James Simshaw, would you mine team viewing my computer to help me with the issue later today?

James Simshaw
James Simshaw
28,738 Points

Hello,

Sorry, but I don't have team viewing capabilities right now. Maybe this stackoverflow post or this stackoverflow post will help.

Taha Abbasi
Taha Abbasi
12,865 Points
Taha Abbasi
Taha Abbasi
12,865 Points

Are you seeing the mipmap folders under res? because of the version of Android Studio I have my folder is not called drawable, it is mipmap-hopi, mipmap-mdpi, etc ...

if you see them drag your files in those folders and you'll be able to access your images by R.id.mipmap.

wajd tohme
wajd tohme
10,240 Points

mipmaps are for icon use only. just create drawable directories.

Taha Abbasi
Taha Abbasi
12,865 Points

Ahh, good to know, thank you. Time to re-organize my apk :)