1 page.title=Using the Android Project View 2 3 @jd:body 4 5 6 <p>The Android project view in Android Studio shows a flattened version of your project's structure 7 that provides quick access to the key source files of Android projects and helps you work with 8 the new <a href="{@docRoot}sdk/installing/studio-build.html">Gradle-based build system</a>. The 9 Android project view:</p> 10 11 <ul> 12 <li>Groups the build files for all modules at the top level of the project hierarchy.</li> 13 <li>Shows the most important source directories at the top level of the module hierarchy.</li> 14 <li>Groups all the manifest files for each module.</li> 15 <li>Shows resource files from all Gradle source sets.</li> 16 <li>Groups resource files for different locales, orientations, and screen types in a single group 17 per resource type.</li> 18 </ul> 19 20 <div style="float:right;margin-left:30px;width:240px"> 21 <img src="{@docRoot}images/tools/projectview01.png" alt="" width="220" height="264"/> 22 <p class="img-caption"><strong>Figure 1:</strong> Show the Android project view.</p> 23 </div> 24 25 26 <h2 id="enable-view">Enable the Android Project View</h2> 27 28 <p>The Android project view is not yet enabled by default. To show the Android project view, 29 click <strong>Project</strong> and select <strong>Android</strong>, as shown in Figure 1.</p> 30 31 32 <h2 id="project-view">Use the Android Project View</h2> 33 34 <p>The Android project view shows all the build files at the top level of the project hierarchy 35 under <strong>Gradle Scripts</strong>. Each project module appears as a folder at the top 36 level of the project hierarchy and contains these three elements at the top level:</p> 37 38 <ul> 39 <li><code>java/</code> - Source files for the module.</li> 40 <li><code>manifests/</code> - Manifest files for the module.</li> 41 <li><code>res/</code> - Resource files for the module.</li> 42 </ul> 43 44 <p>Figure 2 shows how the Android project view groups all the instances of the 45 <code>ic_launcher.png</code> resource for different screen densities under the same element.</p> 46 47 <p class="note"><strong>Note:</strong> The Android project view shows a hierarchy that helps you 48 work with Android projects by providing a flattened structure that highlights the most commonly 49 used files while developing Android applications. However, the project structure on disk differs 50 from this representation.</p> 51 52 <img src="{@docRoot}images/tools/projectview03.png" alt="" 53 style="margin-top:10px" width="650" height="508"/> 54 <p class="img-caption"><strong>Figure 2:</strong> The traditional project view (left) and the 55 Android project view (right).</p>
