Project Structure of Android
Manifests Folder
● Manifest folder contains AndroidManifest.xml for creating our
android application.
● This file contains information about our application such as the
Android version, metadata, states package for Kotlin file, and other
application components.
● It is an intermediate between OS and application
AndroidManifest.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<manifest xmlns:android="http:// schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
package="com.geeksforgeeks.myapplication">
<application
android:allowBackup="true"
android:icon="@mipmap/ic_launcher"
android:label="@string/app_name"
android:roundIcon="@mipmap/ic_launcher_round"
android:supportsRtl="true"
android:theme="@style/AppTheme">
<activity android:name=".MainActivity">
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
<category
android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
</intent-filter>
</activity>
</application>
</manifest>
Java Folder
● The Java folder contains all the java and Kotlin source code (.java)
files that we create during the app development, including other
Test files.
● If we create any new project usingJava, by default the class file
MainActivity.java file
package com.geeksforgeeks.myapplication;
import android.os.Bundle;
import androidx.appcompat.app.AppCompatActivity;
public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {
@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)
{
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
}
}
res/drawable folder
● It contains the different types of images used for the development
of the application.
● We need to add all the images in a drawable folder for the
application development.
res/layout folder
● The layout folder contains all XML layout files which we used to
define the user interface of our application.
● It contains the activity_main.xml file.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout
xmlns:android="http:// schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http:// schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
xmlns:tools="http:// schemas.android.com/tools"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
tools:context=".MainActivity">
<TextView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Hello World!"
app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintLeft_toLeftOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintRight_toRightOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent" />
</androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout>
mipmap folder
● This folder contains launcher.xml files to define icons that are used
to show on the home screen.
● It contains different density types of icons depending upon the size
of the device such as hdpi, mdpi, xhdpi.
Gradle Scripts folder
● Gradle means automated build system and it contains a number of
files that are used to define a build configuration that can be
applied to all modules in our application.
● In build.gradle there are buildscripts and in build.gradle (Module)
plugins and implementations are used to build configurations that
can be applied to all our application modules.
