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

It is possible to have multiple drawable folders by having an extra folder parallel to 'res' with a subdirectory 'drawable' and then add following to gradle:

sourceSets {
    main {
        res.srcDirs 'src/main/'
    }
}

Tested with gradle 6.5.1