Home/ Questions/Q 6922933
In Process

The Archive Base Latest Questions

Editorial Team
  • 0
Asked: 2026-05-27T10:28:14+00:00

Is there a way to avoid having multiple sets of drawables per resolution? I

  • 0

Is there a way to avoid having multiple sets of drawables per resolution? I have close to 50 images (simple icons mostly, not using anything needing 9-patch), seems like a lot of redundant work to resize all 50 in Photoshop, also considering the rework if I have to change some of the icons in the future.

I understand the need for adjusting to multiple densities, but is there any way to avoid it lets say just by providing a high quality image and then enforcing the size as DP/DIP?

Also I see that my Android project has just a ‘Drawable’ folder in addition to *hdpi/mdpi/ldpi, what are the implications if I just place all my image resources to that folder instead of resolution specific? (assuming that I’m ok with my images being resized by the device)

Share

Leave an answer

You must login to add an answer.

Need An Account,

1 Answer

  1. Editorial Team

    If you don’t care about all the potential issues with different densities, than go ahead and put all your drawables into drawables folder. They will be picked up correctly. But you’ll find that it’s better to have larger application size than worse looking app in the long run.

    Also, its usually safe to put 9-patches to ‘drawables’ as they usually do not contains density specific data (like complex images).

    • 0