Naming rules for Android resources

Question

where can I find the naming rules for Android resources? I found out thanks to compilation errors that I must use characters within [a-z0-9._], but I also have an error with an image named 401.png. When using it in my layout using

@drawable/401

I get the following compilation error:

invalid VariableDeclaratorId

I can't find these rules in the doc, and I'd like to know all of them before naming my files.

Thanks

Answer 1

The rules are the same as for Java identifiers since each resource must have a corresponding ID field generated in the R.java file.

Answer 2

Worth noting that: "File-based resource names must contain only lowercase a-z, 0-9, or underscore" characters. (quoted from compile error code).

Answer 3

The number is not allowed as first char of resource also not any capital letter