Android Mipmap?

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cameronmoreau picture cameronmoreau · Feb 10, 2015 · Viewed 10.7k times · Source

Whenever I try to generate a new Android project with AndroidStudio, it keeps hiding the folder "drawables". This has never happened to me before. I've been looking around and I've realized its been generating this folder called "mipmap". I searched around a little bit and I've found this is similar to drawables, but was this some big change in the new AndroidStudio release I missed?? If not how can I get my Drawables folder back? I've tried rebuilding my project, creating new projects and even deleting all my AndroidStudio caches, preferences and logs. P.S. I'm on OSX.

Wut Android Mipmap?

Answer

BrentM picture BrentM · Feb 14, 2015

This is a change that is being put into Android Studio 1.1. There is not much documentation about using mipmaps it at the moment but for a run down take a look at the following blog.

https://androidbycode.wordpress.com/2015/02/14/goodbye-launcher-drawables-hello-mipmaps/

If you want to use drawable instead of mipmap folders then you can just recreate the folder structure and access images using @drawable instead of @mipmap in your AndroidManifest.xml.

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