# A naming convention for Android XML resources

DevFeed: [A naming convention for Android XML resources](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/a-successful-xml-naming-convention-28643.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2016/03/07/resourcenaming/>)

Author: info@jeroenmols.com (Jeroen Mols)

Published: 2016-03-07T00:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Jeroen Mols](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/jeroen-mols.md>)

Topics: [Android](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/android.md>), [XML](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/xml.md>), [Android Studio](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/android-studio.md>), [ide](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ide.md>)

Tags: [android](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/android.md>), [android-studio](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/android-studio.md>), [autocomplete](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/autocomplete.md>), [blogs](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/blogs.md>), [cheat-sheet](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cheat-sheet.md>), [cleancode](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cleancode.md>), [ide](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ide.md>), [ordering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ordering.md>), [resources](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/resources.md>), [xml](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/xml.md>)

## AI overview

This tutorial proposes a naming convention for Android XML resources to make resource lookup, ordering, autocomplete, organization, and resource ID typing more predictable. It also discusses the convention's advantages and limitations.

## Source excerpt

Do you remember the last time you had to dig into strings.xml to find the right String to use? Or that you manually had to go over all drawables to find the one you needed?