How to exclude individual resources from being added to the APK?

Question

Android

How to exclude individual resources from being added to the APK? Yes, but without physically deleting files from the drawable-*hdpi folder.
Pictures will be used small ones from drawable-mdpi so shrinkResources true doesn't work.

Answer 1

It seems that you could specify it in Proguard, but you need to check it, since I haven’t collected anything for Android for a long time.
Here is what I found on the net: for Maven and Gradle link 1 and 2

Answer 2

There is a block in build.gradle :

android {
    ...
    packagingOptions {
        exclude 'path/to/file'
    }
    ...
}