Question

First I thought that I could find this list on the net, but I’m either looking for the wrong term or such list doesn’t exist.

What I need is basically a cheat sheet of all predefined resource folders in an Android project. For example, a list could say something like this

• res/drawable – all graphics go here
• res/drawable-hdpi – all graphics of higher resolution go here
• res/layout – some-meaningful-description
• res/values – some-meaningful-description
• res/layout-land – some-meaningful-description
• etc.

I am really surprised that such list isn’t easily found on the net. Whenever I need to add some resource I haven’t used before, I have to look on the net for the correct naming (and I would rather look at the list of res folders).

Answer 1

Taken from here:

In the /res folder you can have:

• animator/ -XML files that define property animations.

• anim/ – XML files that define tween
  animations

• color/ – XML files that define a state list of colors.

• drawable/ – Bitmap files / Nine-Patches (re-sizable bitmaps)
  / State lists / Shapes / Animation drawables / Other drawables

• layout/ – XML files that define a user interface layout.

• menu/ – XML files that define application menus, such as an Options
  Menu, Context Menu, or Sub Menu.

• raw/ – Arbitrary files to save in their raw form.

• values/ – XML files that contain simple values, such as
  strings, integers, and colors.

  • arrays.xml for resource arrays (typed arrays).
  • colors.xml for color values
  • dimens.xml for dimension values.
  • strings.xml for string values.
  • styles.xml for styles.

• xml/ – Arbitrary XML files

Also see Accessing Alternative Resources for more specific device configurations (locale, dpi, size, aspect, orientation, etc)