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title: "What is a drawable folder on android?"  
description: "What is a drawable folder on android?"  
author: "Shreyas singh"  
published: 2018-01-23  
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category: "technology"  
tags: ["android"]  
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# What is a drawable folder on android?

What is a [drawable folder](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/96790/what-do-you-mean-by-a-drawable-folder-in-android) on [android](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/84568/iphone-vs-android-how-to-choose-the-best-smartphone)?

## Answers

### Answer by Arti Mishra

## Drawable in android :

![What is a drawable folder on android?](https://answers.mindstick.com/questionanswer/be9f81d4-4576-4297-9747-0e359e079c59/images/9b169981-5d9c-4744-822e-9c6ca6b46590.png)**\**

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A **Drawable is a folder or Directories** that contains graphical file (bitmap) like .png, .jpg, .ico, .xml etc. which would be represent in **BitmapDrawable class** in android. In android, each Drawable folder stored as **individual files** in the res/drawable folders. Generally you would use to store bitmaps for different resolutions in the –**hdpi, -mdpi, -xhdpi, -xxhdpi** subfolders of res/drawable. If these bitmaps are present in different-different folder, then android automatically selects the correct one for device configuration. Some Key points of drawable folders- \

- XML drawable folder is used to contain the different type of shapes (color, border, gradient, and font-family), state, transitions and another different types of things.
- In android, Drawable can also be written in Java code. And each object that present in Drawable folder can be used as “@drawable/objectName” in our code.

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