| page.title=Using the Android Project View |
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| <p>The Android project view in Android Studio shows a flattened version of your project's structure |
| that provides quick access to the key source files of Android projects and helps you work with |
| the new <a href="{@docRoot}sdk/installing/studio-build.html">Gradle-based build system</a>. The |
| Android project view:</p> |
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| <ul> |
| <li>Groups the build files for all modules at the top level of the project hierarchy.</li> |
| <li>Shows the most important source directories at the top level of the module hierarchy.</li> |
| <li>Groups all the manifest files for each module.</li> |
| <li>Shows resource files from all Gradle source sets.</li> |
| <li>Groups resource files for different locales, orientations, and screen types in a single group |
| per resource type.</li> |
| </ul> |
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| <div style="float:right;margin-left:30px;width:240px"> |
| <img src="{@docRoot}images/tools/projectview01.png" alt="" width="220" height="264"/> |
| <p class="img-caption"><strong>Figure 1:</strong> Show the Android project view.</p> |
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| <h2 id="enable-view">Enable the Android Project View</h2> |
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| <p>The Android project view is not yet enabled by default. To show the Android project view, |
| click <strong>Project</strong> and select <strong>Android</strong>, as shown in Figure 1.</p> |
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| <h2 id="project-view">Use the Android Project View</h2> |
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| <p>The Android project view shows all the build files at the top level of the project hierarchy |
| under <strong>Gradle Scripts</strong>. Each project module appears as a folder at the top |
| level of the project hierarchy and contains these three elements at the top level:</p> |
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| <ul> |
| <li><code>java/</code> - Source files for the module.</li> |
| <li><code>manifests/</code> - Manifest files for the module.</li> |
| <li><code>res/</code> - Resource files for the module.</li> |
| </ul> |
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| <p>Figure 2 shows how the Android project view groups all the instances of the |
| <code>ic_launcher.png</code> resource for different screen densities under the same element.</p> |
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| <p class="note"><strong>Note:</strong> The Android project view shows a hierarchy that helps you |
| work with Android projects by providing a flattened structure that highlights the most commonly |
| used files while developing Android applications. However, the project structure on disk differs |
| from this representation.</p> |
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| <img src="{@docRoot}images/tools/projectview03.png" alt="" |
| style="margin-top:10px" width="650" height="508"/> |
| <p class="img-caption"><strong>Figure 2:</strong> The traditional project view (left) and the |
| Android project view (right).</p> |