Project Overview

Structure

Let’s take a look at the structure of what a typical Android project looks like:

• app - root module folder
  • build.gradle - module config file
  • src/main/AndroidManifest.xml - module manifest file
  • src/main/java - module source folder for Java or Kotlin files
  • src/main/res - module resource folder
• build.gradle - project config file
• gradle, gradle.properties, gradlew, gradlew.bat - Gradle related files to build android project
• settings.gradle - project settings file

project-name
├── app
│   ├── build.gradle
│   └── src
│       └── main
│           ├── AndroidManifest.xml
│           ├── java
│           │   └── com/travelblog/MainActivity.kt
│           └── res
│               ├── layout/activity_main.xml
│               └── values/
├── build.gradle
├── gradle
│   └── wrapper
│       ├── gradle-wrapper.jar
│       └── gradle-wrapper.properties
├── gradle.properties
├── gradlew
├── gradlew.bat
└── settings.gradle

The Android project may consist of one or several modules. Small to medium projects usually have one module, ...