R4md4c / ResFoldersDetector

An Android Gradle plugin that detects added res folders and adds it to the res source set

ResFoldersDetector

An Android Gradle plugin that detects added res folders and adds it to the res source set.

Why?

I used to separate my resource files by feature after following this guide, but the problem with that approach is once the project get bigger, you will have a long array to maintain, and with each new feature you will need manually to add a new entry to the main.res.srcDirs array. So I wrote this simple plugin to automate this process.

Usage

All you have to do is create a folder named res-root and add that folder under the project's main res folder, and by adding any folder under the res-root, it will be included automatically to the res.srcDirs array.

Configuration

In your app/build.gradle file

buildscript {
  repositories {
    maven {
      url "https://plugins.gradle.org/m2/"
    }
  }
  dependencies {
    classpath "gradle.plugin.com.github.r4md4c.gradle:res-folders-detector:0.1"
  }
}

apply plugin: 'com.android.application'
apply plugin: "com.github.r4md4c.gradle.res-folders-detector-plugin"

resFolderDetector {
    rootDirName 'res-root' // DEFAULT
}

Tests

To Run the tests: ./gradlew install test