Disable Android resource / image / PNG optimization

Question

How do I prevent the Android \"build process\" from optimizing .png images?

I have an Android project with the following res directories:

- /res/
- /         


        

Answer 1

Specifying PNG crunching is now a BuildType property and is disabled by default on debug builds:

android {
    …
    buildTypes {
        release {
            crunchPngs false // or true
        }
    }
}

Note: It's available from Android Studio 3.0 Canary 5 .