Drawables Pulled From Wrong Resource Folder On Rotation

Pulling my hair out here. So I'm working with an application that has several types of drawables, and I have them in a structure like so: res/ //Portrait resources drawable

Solution 1:

So I've figured out where the problem resides, and I'm honestly not sure if it's my misunderstanding or a bug in Android. I didn't think to add this as part of the question (looking back, I should have) but my drawable was a layer-list drawable with two images stacked atop each other (one shadow, one image above the shadow) :

<layer-listxmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android>
    <item>
        <bitmap android:src="@drawable/shadow"/></item><item><bitmapandroid:src="@drawable/image"android:gravity="top|center_horizontal"/></item></layer-list>

It seems that this only gets parsed out once (I'm assuming for efficiency it's reused) but it never goes back and reconstructs the layer-list with the drawables for the new configuration.

I changed to using two aligned ImageViews instead of a layer-list drawable and all is well.