What is the difference between creating different dimens files directly and creating different values files with different dimens files?

Question

What I want is to have different dimens.xml files for each different screen size device. I have searched for information and I have seen in all the posts I found that they follow second path but I have not found any post which follows first path as I thought that could work and it was a more logical path.

What path is better, first or second? Are they exactly equivalent and could I use both of them for the purpose I want?

First path: Android --> Values folder --> Right Click --> New --> Values Resource File --> File name: dimens --> Choose screen size qualifier --> Choose the density I want (Small, Normal, X-Large) --> Click OK

Second path: Project --> res --> Right Click --> Android Resource Directory --> Resource type: values --> Choose screen size qualifier --> Choose the density I want (Small, Normal, X-Large) --> Click OK --> add a specific dimens.xml file to each directory created

Answer 1

Third path -> Project --> res --> Right Click --> Android Resource File --> Resource type: values --> Choose screen size qualifier --> Choose the density I want (Small, Normal, X-Large) --> Click OK --> Created directory and file

the paths are the same, the difference is the first path creates a file you named before and the second path creates only a folder. You can use it which you want.

for more information about device compatibility here