Are there problems with my folders?

Question

Earlier, I asked this question: Landscape mode for app?

Where I had a directory for each and every layout, but the layout in the layout-land directory wasn't showing up when positioning my layout in landscape orientation.

So, someone suggested to me that it maybe that the

`Layout-normal` directories are overriding my regular `layout-land` directories. Is this true?

If so, will any other of my layout folders get overriding? What is the purpose of layout-normal in the first place then anyway?

Thanks,

Ruchir

I think `layout-land` would be called instead of the other `layout-land-*` directories — Kyle Emmanuel, Dec 23 '15 at 05:07
yes this happened with me too. I had small,normal and large directories but for normal screens also layout from small folder was choosen by android. — Vivek Mishra, Dec 23 '15 at 06:22
@VivekMishra Really? What did you do to fix it? Did you remove the normal directory? — Ruchir Baronia, Dec 23 '15 at 06:24
no deleted small directory as it was for screen size around 2 to 3 inches and that phone sizes are very rare now and also I already know that my app won't be running on such small screen size — Vivek Mishra, Dec 23 '15 at 06:26
did you created folder manually or using graphical view from android studio?? — Vivek Mishra, Dec 23 '15 at 06:29
Not manually. I clicked on settings icon in graphic view - > create other. Then made the directories. @VivekMishra — Ruchir Baronia, Dec 23 '15 at 06:31
that's not correct.right click on res folder then new and then new resource directory. From there selected orientation and then landscape — Vivek Mishra, Dec 23 '15 at 06:33
@RuchirBaronia it's a typo, my bad. I meant that the `layout-land` folder would be called rather than the specific `layout-*-land` folders. — Kyle Emmanuel, Dec 23 '15 at 06:34
@RuchirBaronia you can try to see for yourself. I don't use specific screen sizes for my graphics. — Kyle Emmanuel, Dec 23 '15 at 06:39

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 23 '15 at 04:52

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First understand, how resources are pulled out in android. If your device is large, then the layout from layout-large gets loaded. If you device is normal then the layout from layout-normal gets loaded. But if the android system is unable to determine whether the device is large or normal or anything else. Then layouts from the layout get loaded.

answered Dec 23 '15 at 04:52

Eric B.

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Yes, I know all that. If you look at this [question](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/34378238/landscape-mode-for-app?lq=1) You'll see that I do have all of the appropriate directories. The issue I'm having is that even when I put my `normal` size screen to `landscape` mode, the regular `layout` mode gets loaded. – Ruchir Baronia Dec 23 '15 at 04:54
Make a back up of the `layout-land` and then delete the folder. Now try to run and see what happens. – Eric B. Dec 23 '15 at 04:57
Okay, I will do that, but I only have so many devices to test on and catch these issues. So does anything else override anything? – Ruchir Baronia Dec 23 '15 at 04:57
From the way i see it, you have all the screen sizes handled. That is `small`, `normal`, `large`, `xlarge`. So i don't think there would be any other problems. Lastly, as you already know it is recommended to use `sw` qualifiers. – Eric B. Dec 23 '15 at 05:05

Are there problems with my folders?

`Layout-normal` directories are overriding my regular `layout-land` directories. Is this true?

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Are there problems with my folders?

Layout-normal directories are overriding my regular layout-land directories. Is this true?

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`Layout-normal` directories are overriding my regular `layout-land` directories. Is this true?