Resources & Qualifiers - Android Basics 2023

In this video, you'll learn about accessing resourcs in Android such as images, strings or colors.

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[lucasfteodoro]

That was actually very interesting, I didn't know about this night drawable thing

[KellyMalaki]

At first when I saw this new playlist I kinda brushed it off thinking that it would be so basic for me but wow, ever since I started watching it from the beginning, I've learned so many things I can't even believe it. Thank you so much Phillip, you've saved me a lot of dog years from doing so many things wrongly😂

[tonnie]

Legend Stuff, Thx Philipp for keeping us up to date

[mustafasahin]

Hi, Philipp. Your videos are awesome, very clear and concise. Could you please provide us with more video about theme with m3 and vector and image drawables samples for img/svg resources of different sizes. I cant figure out exactly to pick which of them and when. And I cant also figure out best practices how to handle icons with different sizes. Thank you.

[forntoh]

You're a pretty good teacher, I just love watching your videos to see your way even though I know what to do.
What about challenging the android yt channel with your own PL MAD Skills playlist? 🙃

[devit]

Thanks for this amazing content, Philipp. Keep it up!

[prathameshpatne]

This guy is so perfect huge respect to you

Love from india 🇮🇳

[sunnyeyez]

Thanks. great explanation of qualifiers.

[NajiAAbed]

You are my actual inspiration Phillip 💙

[bigpiglove]

Thanks for your content man! Appreciate it!

[mircodev]

Thank you so much for this video. Amazing content as usual.

[onmoveonmove]

another great tutorial from philipp thanks

[ookie]

Thank you thank you man. I appreciate you 4real

[Shiraori.]

Thanks for the video. It would be cool if you did a camerax tutorial with jetpack compose!

[vectoralphaSec]

I'm completely new to android development as in I just started 2 days ago. And I'm confused. Is Jetpack Compose a new way of doing mobile development? And the old traditional way was with XML layout files? Which one is easier to make apps with?

[alirezafaraji]

another great video. you're great

[brayn]

Hello I saw your drag and drop tutorial and wanted to ask if we can animate the shadow as well while it is dragged? If so, could you give me some pointers as to how it can be achieved? I would appreciate your help. thank you.

[serhii_y]

Excellent Android tutorial for novice programmers. It's accessible, beneficial, and straightforward. As a seasoned developer, I find it very engaging. However, I observed you've inserted a substantially large bitmap file into the 'drawable' resources folder without using a qualifier, and this detail was left unaddressed in the video. This could potentially lead to visual or performance-related issues within your app on varied devices, as these can have differing screen resolutions and pixel densities.

Android's system automatically scales bitmap files located in the 'drawable' directory that lack a density qualifier, adjusting them to the device's screen density. This can inadvertently cause distortion or blurring of images, and in extreme cases, lead to crashes from Out Of Memory (OOM) errors, especially if, for instance, your 960p image gets upscaled three times when loaded on an xxhdpi screen.

To circumvent this, which I'm confident you're aware of, it's advisable to generate different versions of your bitmap file that correspond to various screen densities, and allocate them to designated folders with appropriate qualifiers (hdpi, xhdpi, etc.). Alternatively, placing such bitmaps under the 'nodpi' qualifier ensures they won't be unnecessarily upscaled by the system. The 'drawable' resource folder is ideally reserved for vector graphics.

I hope you find my feedback beneficial and look forward to more of your content. 👍

[xuygwnc]

The video is excellent please also try to add the timeStamp on the video for easy navigation to specific part of the video

[ArthurKhazbs]

The themes.xml is still important for system stuff which is not rendered by Jetpack Compose, like splash screens