I want to localize an image by adding the folder res/drawable-hdpi-no, but I get an error stating "invalid resource directory name". What's up with this?
4 Answers
Each Android resource can have configuration parts in its resource name. For example you might have a plain image on
res/drawable
and a image for a high DPI screen on
res/drawable-hdpi
Here hdpi is a Screen pixel density configration. A list of supported Android resource configurtions can be found from here
http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/resources/providing-resources.html
The order of configurations are important. They must be on specific order. Your original Norwegian language configuration is on a wrong place. Change
res/drawable-hdpi-no
to
res/drawable-no-hdpi
and it works.

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As far as I remember, only certain res folders will work. You need to call it drawable-[language code]-r[capitalised localisation code] if I remember rightly. Pretty sure it's one of the Android Tutorials.
Yeah here it is http://developer.android.com/resources/tutorials/localization/index.html

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7Thanx! I knew I'd seen that tutorial. I just couldn't find it. Though the solution to my direct problem is "res/drawable-no-hdpi" and not "res/drawable-hdpi-no" – Espen Dec 14 '10 at 18:50
You can use directly the Android Studio UI to create your Android Resource Directory
and providing all parameters you want:
then define all the parameters you need (Locale, Density, etc.)...
Then click on OK
and your folder will be created correctly.

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