Test specs for the Resource Manager.

Import resources

Drag and Drop

Steps

1. Create a new project, wait for the gradle sync to finish.

2. Open the external file explorer to the “res/resources-manager” directory.

3. In Android Studio, open the “Resources” tool window.

4. Drag and drop the whole directory onto the tool window.

   • A dialog name “Import drawables” should appear

   • In the header the label “10 resources ready to be imported should appear”

   • In the dialog, 3 section should appear:

     • icon_category_food_raster (5 items)
     • icon_category_food (1 item)
     • icon_category_entertainment (4 items)

   • In the section "icon_category_food_raster, each item should be populated with one row of 2 Comboboxes, the first one (Qualifier Type) showing “Density” and the second one (Value) being one the following value and different for each item:

     • XX-High Density
     • X-High Density
     • XXX-High Density
     • High Density
     • Medium Density

     

   • In the section “icon_category_entertainment”

     • One of the item should be named icon_categoy_entertainement.xml (XML is the important part)

5. For the item name “icon_category_entertainment.png”, change the Qualifier Type to “Locale”, and the values to “Afar” and “ET”

   

6. Click Import.

   • The new resources should appear as shown in the picture below.

7. In the android project tool window, under app/res/drawable, the exact following hierarchy should be visible

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Use resources

Open a drawable

1. Reuse the project from the step above with the imported images.

   • (If the step above failed, just ensure that you have 2 png files named icon_category_entertainment.png), with one in the res/drawable directory and the other in res/drawable-xhdpi)

2. Open the “Resource Manager” tool window.

3. Click on the “Drawable” tab.

   • A drawable named icon_category_entertainment should be showing like in

   

4. Double click on it.

   • This following view should appear:

   

5. Double click on “default”.

   • A new editor with the image “icon_category_entertainment.xml” should open.

6. Click the left arrow “<--”.

   • The view from step 3 should appear.

Open a layout

1. Create a new project wih an empty activity OR reuse the one created above.

2. Open the “Resource Manager” tool window.

3. Click on the “Layout” tab.

   • A layout named activity_main should be showing

   

4. Double click on it.

   • A new editor with the file “activity_main.xml” should open.

5. Click the left arrow “<--”.

   • The view from step 3 should appear.

Open in Resource Manager (from 3.5)

1. From the project tree, right click on the activity_main.xml file

2. Check that “Show In Resource Manager” option appears and click on it

3. The resource manager should open with the activity_main file selected (The layout tab might not show as selected but this is a known issue)

Create an Image View

1. Create a new project wih an empty activity OR reuse the one created above.
2. Open the “activity_main.xml” file, with the “Design” tab selected (if not already open).
3. Open the “Resources” tool window.
4. Ensure the “Drawable” tab is selected.
5. Drag “ic_launcher_background” from the “Resources” tool window onto the Layout Editor.
   • A new image view displaying “ic_launcher_background” should be created.
6. On the layout editor, switch to the “Text” tab to display the XML editor.
7. On the “Resource” window, right click on ic_launcher_foreground.
8. Select Copy .
9. On the XML editor, move the cursor on the ImageView.
10. Right click, and click paste.

• the src (or scrCompat) attribute should have been changed to “@drawable/ic_launcher_foreground”