Can't access drawable resource from menu for navigation drawer

Question

Am trying to add icons to a navigation drawer but somehow, I can't access resources in the res/drawable folder.

This is the list of icons I have in my drawable-hdpi folder:

But I can't access any of them using the correct method:

It says cannot resolve the symbol '@drawable/ic_action_user'

This is strange because I have another application open that uses the exact same method and it works fine there.I've tried invalidating cache and restarting Android Studio with no luck.

All I get are the icons in the drawable-v21 folder:

Answer 1

You have created drawable-hdpi folder inside drawable.
You should move it to res folder .

Answer 2

You need to put images in drawable folder instead of drawable-v21. Create below drawable folder under res .

drawable-ldpi

drawable-mdpi

drawable-hdpi

drawable-xhdpi

drawable-xxhdpi

Then Clean & Rebuild your Project . Hope this helps .

You can check #SO How to import set of icons into Android Studio project

Answer 3

Try to put your images in the main drawable directory (res/drawable).. Not in the sub one (res/drawable-hdpi)

Answer 4

you might have set min sdk version to 21 in gradle, set it to below version or copy all drawables in drawables-hdpi to drawables-v21, as only drawables in drawables-v21 will be used in versions equal to and above 21

Answer 5

Try to use gradle task 'clean' and rebuild project

Answer 6

First check that the icons is available in your resources folder.