Is there a way to organise the res folder in android?

Question

I have a lot of files in /res/raw. Is there some way to organise this folder? Simply arranging into directories makes them invisible to R.raw.

score 15 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:31

15

Sub-directories are not allowed within the Android resource folders. It is certainly inconvenient.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:31

Community

answered Apr 06 '11 at 19:20

Kyle Ivey

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

Assets

Especially if you don't need a reference in your R class, (and no internationalization) use the assets folder.

InputStream inStream = getAssets().open("subfolder/filename.txt");
BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(inStream));

It is meant to be on the same level as your res/java folder: src/main/assets/

Since you asked for the raw folder, there is a good chance this is what you want to use anyways.