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+Images, layout descriptions, binary blobs and string dictionaries can be included 
+in your application as resource files.  Various Android APIs are designed to 
+operate on the resource IDs instead of dealing with images, strings or binary blobs 
+directly.
+
+For example, a sample Android app that contains a user interface layout (Main.xml),
+an internationalization string table (Strings.xml) and some icons (drawable/Icon.png) 
+would keep its resources in the "Resources" directory of the application:
+
+Resources/
+    Drawable/
+        Icon.png
+
+    Layout/
+        Main.axml
+
+    Values/
+        Strings.xml
+
+In order to get the build system to recognize Android resources, the build action should be set 
+to "AndroidResource".  The native Android APIs do not operate directly with filenames, but 
+instead operate on resource IDs.  When you compile an Android application that uses resources, 
+the build system will package the resources for distribution and generate a class called
+"Resource" that contains the tokens for each one of the resources included. For example, 
+for the above Resources layout, this is what the Resource class would expose:
+
+public class Resource {
+    public class Drawable {
+        public const int Icon = 0x123;
+    }
+
+    public class Layout {
+        public const int Main = 0x456;
+    }
+
+    public class String {
+        public const int FirstString = 0xabc;
+        public const int SecondString = 0xbcd;
+    }
+}
+
+You would then use Resource.Drawable.Icon to reference the Drawable/Icon.png file, or 
+Resource.Layout.Main to reference the Layout/Main.axml file, or Resource.String.FirstString
+to reference the first string in the dictionary file Values/Strings.xml.
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