Can the Android drawable directory contain subdirectories?

Question

In the Android SDK documentation, all of the examples used with the @drawable/my_image xml syntax directly address images that are stored in the res/drawable directory in my

Answer 1

There is a workaround for this situation: you can create a resVector (for example) folder on the same level as default res folder. There you can add any drawable-xxx resource folders there:

resVector
-drawable
-layout
-color

After that all you need is to add

sourceSets {
        main.res.srcDirs += 'src/main/resVector'
    }

into your build.gradle file (inside android { }).