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Asked: 2026-05-31T06:46:13+00:00

Android allows us to define hdpi/mdpi/ldpi for the drawable folder in order to account

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Android allows us to define hdpi/mdpi/ldpi for the drawable folder in order to account for different sized screens/devices. I was wondering if that same support can be applied for the Values folder (or even the layout folder)? Reason being, I typically define a “sizes.xml” file which holds standard dp sizes that I apply to margins and paddings. I also do the same for sp sizes for text. I’d like to adjust those values based on the phones dpi.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Yes, I believe anything in the res/ folder can use “Configuration Qualifiers”. So for example, you can have a values-sw600dp-mdpi-land/ folder.

    See “Using Configuration Qualifiers”:
    http://developer.android.com/guide/practices/screens_support.html#qualifiers

    I first noticed this by looking at Google’s IOSched app sample code, look at the res folder:
    https://github.com/google/iosched/tree/master/android/src/main/res

    You’ll see that they have “values-sw600dp-land”, “values-w400dp” and “values-v17” folders, just to name a few.

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