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Luke Allison
Luke Allison

Reputation: 3218

Using drawables xml files and images

How is someone supposed to use the drawables located in ...\AppData\Local\Android\android-sdk\platforms\android-22\data\res in Android Studio projects?

For example, if someone would like to change the Floating Action Button icon to a pencil icon, what is the standard practice?

Is there some kind of documentation available that demonstrates what each drawable XML file actually looks like when drawn? Or are you expected to copy and paste these into your project in order to see what they actually draw?

Surely there is some kind of gallery somewhere...

Upvotes: 2

Views: 650

Answers (1)

OBX
OBX

Reputation: 6114

Unlike any other O.S, Android powers billion devices with different screen sizes, ranging from small phones to large TV sets. And it becomes a primary necessity to run apps with perfect User Experience on all sorts of devices! And for that purpose Android uses DIP or DP (Display Independent Pixels).

And coming to the solution to your question, consider reading from here

And, the general procedure is to generate images of different resolutions for different screen sizes, see this

Also, this video explains it simple!

And in order to generate multiple images with different resolutions for the respective screen sizes, I personally use a resizer tool. Final Android resizer, available here.

hope it helps!

Upvotes: 1

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