As I understand it, the default DPI setting for Android is equivalent to MDPI. Is there any reason to have both drawable and drawable-mdpi folders, or would it work the same if I just put them in drawable?
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As I understand it, the default DPI setting for Android is equivalent to MDPI. Is there any reason to have both drawable and drawable-mdpi folders, or would it work the same if I just put them in drawable?
The drawable/ folder is the most general folder. Mdpi res devices will use the drawable-mdpi directory first, hdpi devices will look in drawable-hdpi, etc.
http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/resources/providing-resources.html#AlternativeResources
Android will look for the most specific resource it can get before falling back to the drawable/ folder.