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It's a good idea to have a "base" folder (called "drawable" in your particular case) and put some "default" resources there so that Android has something to revert to, if it doesn't locate right resources. But in general it indeed looks strange, why none of dpi-specific resources were not picked.

Eugene Mayevski 'EldoS Corp 2010-09-23 12:25:04

Yeah, well I know that would work, but then again that's not what I want. Almost every tutorial states only that the three dpi folders are necessessary.

Frederik 2010-09-23 14:04:50

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You can use "aapt dump restable" to look at the actual resources in your .apk. There is no need to have a base resource when using density resources. There isn't enough information here to help much more than that, but my guess would be just that your code and resources are out of sync. Have you tried doing a full clean build?

hackbod 2010-09-25 20:07:33

Hi, I'm sorry that my question lacks some information. I'm building against Android 2.0 SDK and my manifest file describes minSDK as "<uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="5" />".

Frederik 2010-09-29 08:30:09

I've dumped the resources here: http://pastebin.com/TzXWxaYr . I will be very grateful to hear from you. I think I can guess what the lines mean, but I can't find any documentation on this command.

Frederik 2010-09-30 12:05:34

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I think the reason you get the runtime error is because you're testing/compiling it against Android SDK 1.5.

If you aim for 1.5 compatibility, you also need a default "drawable" folder, as of the official documentation, ldpi, mdpi, hdpi and nodpi modes were added with API Level 4 (Android 1.6).

http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/resources/providing-resources.html

ldpi: Low-density screens; approximately 120dpi.
mdpi: Medium-density (on traditional HVGA) screens; approximately 160dpi.
hdpi: High-density screens; approximately 240dpi.
nodpi: This can be used for bitmap resources that you do not want to be scaled to match the device density.

Added in API Level 4.

Edit: If I'd be you, I'd simply rename the drawable-ldpi folder into drawable folder and store the ldpi files in drawable

Tseng 2010-09-26 15:49:04

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