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6<p>The Android project view in Android Studio shows a flattened version of your project's structure
7that provides quick access to the key source files of Android projects and helps you work with
8the new <a href="{@docRoot}sdk/installing/studio-build.html">Gradle-based build system</a>. The
9Android project view:</p>
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12<li>Groups the build files for all modules at the top level of the project hierarchy.</li>
13<li>Shows the most important source directories at the top level of the module hierarchy.</li>
14<li>Groups all the manifest files for each module.</li>
15<li>Shows resource files from all Gradle source sets.</li>
16<li>Groups resource files for different locales, orientations, and screen types in a single group
17per resource type.</li>
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20<div style="float:right;margin-left:30px;width:240px">
21<img src="{@docRoot}images/tools/projectview01.png" alt="" width="220" height="264"/>
22<p class="img-caption"><strong>Figure 1:</strong> Show the Android project view.</p>
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26<h2 id="enable-view">Enable the Android Project View</h2>
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28<p>The Android project view is not yet enabled by default. To show the Android project view,
29click <strong>Project</strong> and select <strong>Android</strong>, as shown in Figure 1.</p>
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32<h2 id="project-view">Use the Android Project View</h2>
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34<p>The Android project view shows all the build files at the top level of the project hierarchy
35under <strong>Gradle Scripts</strong>. Each project module appears as a folder at the top
36level of the project hierarchy and contains these three elements at the top level:</p>
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38<ul>
39<li><code>java/</code> - Source files for the module.</li>
40<li><code>manifests/</code> - Manifest files for the module.</li>
41<li><code>res/</code> - Resource files for the module.</li>
42</ul>
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44<p>Figure 2 shows how the Android project view groups all the instances of the
45<code>ic_launcher.png</code> resource for different screen densities under the same element.</p>
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47<p class="note"><strong>Note:</strong> The Android project view shows a hierarchy that helps you
48work with Android projects by providing a flattened structure that highlights the most commonly
49used files while developing Android applications. However, the project structure on disk differs
50from this representation.</p>
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52<img src="{@docRoot}images/tools/projectview03.png" alt=""
53     style="margin-top:10px" width="650" height="508"/>
54<p class="img-caption"><strong>Figure 2:</strong> The traditional project view (left) and the
55Android project view (right).</p>