Chapter 6

Understanding Android Resources

In This Chapter

Knowing why resources are important in Android

Extracting resources

Working with image resources

Resources are mentioned in detail throughout this book, so you might wonder why an entire chapter is devoted to them. Discussing resources and their use in Chapters 3 and 4 is necessary to help you understand the basic structure of the resource directory and the use of resources to build a simple application. One compelling reason to use resources in your application, globalization, is covered in this chapter.