Learning Android™ Application Programming: A Hands-On Guide to Building Android Applications

Using Configuration Qualifiers

By adding a range of suffixes to the resource directory, you can have Android select which resources it uses on a given device. Any of the existing directories in the res directory can use these qualifiers. If you look at your existing application, you will see that drawable directories have DPI qualifiers added and that values directories have API level qualifiers added. If you examine the values directories, you will see that each directory has the same file: styles.xml. In API level 11 and later, the styles.xml file in the values-v11 directory will be used instead of the styles.xml file in the values directory. In API level 14 and later, the styles.xml file in the values-v14 directory will be used instead of ...