Can the Android drawable directory contain subdirectories?
android, android-resources, drawable
Solution
No, the resources mechanism doesn't support subfolders in the drawable directory, so yes - you need to keep that hierarchy flat.
The directory layout you showed would result in none of the images being available.
From my own experiments it seems that having a subfolder with any items in it, within the `res/drawable` folder, will cause the resource compiler to fail -- preventing the `R.java` file from being generated correctly.
Problem
In the Android SDK documentation, all of the examples used with the @drawable/my_image xml syntax directly address images that are stored in the res/drawable directory in my project. I am wondering if it is explicitly not okay to create a sub directory within the drawable directory. For example, if I had the following directory layout: ``` res/drawable -- sandwiches -- tunaOnRye.png -- hamAndSwiss.png -- drinks -- coldOne.png -- hotTea.png ``` Could I reference the image of a tuna salad sandwich as @drawable/sandwiches/tunaOnRye Or do I have to keep the hierarchy flat in the drawable directory.