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Alexander
Alexander

Reputation: 48252

Whats the meaning of having both values and xml directories?

I'm trying to understand why it has been decided to have both values and xml subfolders in the res Android application folder.

While I can see the semantics differences between, say, drawables and anim and values (for those hold objects of different natures) I fail to see difference between xml and values for xml data seem to be values.

(And, moreover, 'xml' seem to describe the form of data representation not the nature of data (most of the res data are in the form of xml))

Could someone give an insight?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 63

Answers (1)

Egor
Egor

Reputation: 40193

values should usually hold files that contain separate values not tied with each other, like strings, dimens or colors. xml should hold files that can be considered as a whole, like app_widget_provider or search_provider files. This is the only difference I can think of.

Upvotes: 1

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