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Has anyone found a clever way to share image assets between Desktop and Android?

I’m having to manage assets between res directories on android and the resource directory on desktop. It’s a bit annoying copying all these files around. After that I can’t access them from the common layer, which again, is a bit annoying having to wire everything up manually.

Add android res to desktop sourceSet res?

We have an example how to do it:

<https://github.com/JetBrains/compose-jb/blob/master/examples/codeviewer/common/build.gradle.kts|https://github.com/JetBrains/compose-jb/blob/master/examples/codeviewer/common/build.gradle.kts>
(see lines with "src/commonMain/resources")

<https://github.com/JetBrains/compose-jb/blob/master/examples/codeviewer/common/src/commonMain/kotlin/org/jetbrains/codeviewer/platform/Resources.kt|https://github.com/JetBrains/compose-jb/blob/master/examples/codeviewer/common/src/commonMain/kotlin/org/jetbrains/codeviewer/platform/Resources.kt>

<https://github.com/JetBrains/compose-jb/blob/master/examples/codeviewer/common/src/androidMain/kotlin/org/jetbrains/codeviewer/platform/Resources.kt|https://github.com/JetBrains/compose-jb/blob/master/examples/codeviewer/common/src/androidMain/kotlin/org/jetbrains/codeviewer/platform/Resources.kt>

<https://github.com/JetBrains/compose-jb/blob/master/examples/codeviewer/common/src/desktopMain/kotlin/org/jetbrains/codeviewer/platform/Resources.kt|https://github.com/JetBrains/compose-jb/blob/master/examples/codeviewer/common/src/desktopMain/kotlin/org/jetbrains/codeviewer/platform/Resources.kt>

And then just put all your images into src/commonMain/resources/drawable