How to create layout-small-land folder?

Question

I want to create separate folders for my layouts, like this in my resource directory:

layout-land
layout-port

this is ok, but this:

layout-small-land
layout-small-port

or

layout-land-small
layout-port-small

Results in: 'Invalid resource directory name'

What gives?

score 5 · Answer 1 · edited Jul 21 '17 at 09:39

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You can specify the screen density instead of a size like Large or Small

Example:

layout-port-hdpi 
layout-port-ldpi 
layout-port-mdpi 
layout-port-nodpi 

layout-land-hdpi 
layout-land-ldpi 
layout-land-mdpi 
layout-land-nodpi

More info in the following link:

https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/resources/resources-i18n.html#AlternateResources

For using Large, Medium, Small this is the way:

res/layout/my_layout.xml            // layout for normal screen size
res/layout-small/my_layout.xml      // layout for small screen size
res/layout-large/my_layout.xml      // layout for large screen size
res/layout-large-land/my_layout.xml // layout for large screen size in landscape mode

edited Jul 21 '17 at 09:39

Vadim Kotov

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answered Mar 08 '10 at 16:13

Donal Rafferty

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then why is there screen orientaion options small/normal/large? BTW, my target is 1.6 – codedeziner Mar 08 '10 at 16:26
`large` and `small` are valid resource set suffixes. See the third row (after the headers) of Table 2 on the page you linked to above. – CommonsWare Mar 08 '10 at 17:07
edited my answer there, they are all valid ways of using large or small etc in the folder name – Donal Rafferty Mar 08 '10 at 17:12

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 08 '10 at 17:09

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layout-small-land and layout-small-port are the correct answers, and they compile just fine for me. Perhaps there is something else amiss in your directory structure.

answered Mar 08 '10 at 17:09

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Turns out my app was targeted for 1.5 instead of 1.6. Once I changed the target, it compiled fine. Thanks for clarifying that the folder names should have worked for me. – codedeziner Mar 09 '10 at 01:56
Ah, yes, the `-small` and `-large` resource set suffixes did not show up until 1.6. – CommonsWare Mar 09 '10 at 02:00

score 1 · Answer 3 · edited Feb 08 '13 at 11:08

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It will give you a "invalid resource error" until the folder is empty. If you fill it with the .xml files (they have to match exactly in every layout-<qualifier> folders) it gives you no error.

EG:

layout-port

--> mainscreen.xml

layout-large-port

--> mainscreen.xml

it's ok

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answered Feb 08 '13 at 10:46

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Mar 08 '10 at 16:15

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I haven't found anything else on the web that references this structure, but the following blog post shows an example where the author uses ldpi (and I'm sure mdpi and hdpi) instead of small, normal and large (as the android reference docs online would suggest). Have a look at the link below and maybe try that structure:

http://android.amberfog.com/?p=276

answered Mar 08 '10 at 16:15

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Halfway down the page here: http://developer.android.com/guide/practices/screens_support.html There is an example using layout-large-land. Considering small/normal/large and port/land are options, I'm wondering why I can't use them. – codedeziner Mar 08 '10 at 16:21

How to create layout-small-land folder?

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