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3<p>Provides classes to manage a variety of visual elements that are intended for
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5by widgets as background images or simply as indicators (for example, a volume
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7<p>You can create most of these drawables using XML, as described in <a
8href="{@docRoot}guide/topics/resources/drawable-resource.html">Drawable Resources</a>.</p>
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