How To Add Or Import Image In Drawable Under Resource Folder In Android Eclipse

Drawable folder located under the resource folder of android project. I am explaining how to import new images from your computer hard drive as a external storage. Right click on that folder doesn’t give direct option to import image into this folder. After importing image, copy of that image automatically saved in your workspace where your android app project saved.

Steps to import images in res/drawable

Before you import images in Drawable folder you have to know about drawable-ldpi(low density), drawable-hdpi(high density), drawable-mdpi(medium density), drawable-xhdpi(extra high density), and drawable-xxhdpi.

add or import image in Drawable - android example

add or import image in Drawable - android example

add or import image in Drawable - android example

add or import image in Drawable - android example

This different folder works for to store images and display images on different size resolution through the scaling and resizing. Through this you can install same apk file on different device at the same time.
Next article helps to understand How to use different layout image folder and why we need?