An Android `res/` tree (layouts, value bags, drawables, menus, navigation
graphs) holds only non-code resources that yield zero symbols, yet on an
Android app it dominates the file count (one report: 26k XML = 97% of
files, 0 symbols) — bloating the DB, slowing indexing, and padding
explore/search results and file counts with entries that have nothing to
find.
Default-ignore the Android resource type directories (`res/layout/`,
`res/values/`, `res/drawable/`, … and their `-<qualifier>` variants) at
discovery, via DEFAULT_IGNORE_PATTERNS so it applies uniformly to the git
index, the non-git walk, and change detection. The `res/<type>/`
structure is self-identifying, so non-Android projects are untouched, and
the only XML that carries symbols — MyBatis mappers under
`src/main/resources/` — never lives under `res/`, so nothing useful is
dropped. `res/raw/` is deliberately kept (arbitrary bundled assets), and
a `.gitignore` negation re-includes anything.
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
