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Android Build an Interactive Story App (Retired) User Input Introducing ImageViews

Posted by bal puk
bal puk
Courses Plus Student 1,913 Points

NEW version: no different folders for different dpi's, there must be different filenames. Am I right?HowShouldItBeDone?

When I tried to "load" the picture in the src property of the ImageView, I got stuck. The new version does not require separate folders for different dpi pictures. As I see, it's not like there is no need for separate folders, but it doesn't even work the old way. In my (new version of) Android Studio, ImageView's src property only sees the files in the drawable folder directly, can not convert to drawable from a subdirectory of drawable folder.

If there is no need for separate folders, there must be a need for different file names for different dpi's. Am I right? And how should it be done?

2 Answers

Seth Kroger
Seth Kroger
56,413 Points
Seth Kroger
Seth Kroger
56,413 Points

The "drawable-*dpi" folders need to be in the res directory alongside "drawable", not inside "drawable".

shashank srivastava
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shashank srivastava
Courses Plus Student 872 Points
shashank srivastava
shashank srivastava
Courses Plus Student 872 Points

i am also facing the same issue. When i created the project, i only see drawable directory. there are no drawable-dpi* directories. Can i copy all the images in the drawable directory?

bal puk
bal puk
Courses Plus Student 1,913 Points

there is only a drawable directory at first. you can copy the drawable-dpi directories as they are, but note that you have to copy them directly into the res directory, NOT into the drawable directory. so the drawable, drawable-dpi directories should be near each other in the res directory, and NOT the drawable-**pi directories inside the drawable directory!

Like this:

res/drawable res/drawable-mdpi res/drawable-hdpi res/drawable-xhdpi res/drawable-xxhdpi