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Subject: Re: binary AndroidManifest.xml, resource ID to string. How to ?
Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2024 15:43:25 +0200
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Andy,

> I'd have expected a .xml file to be text (albeit with lots of 
> elemenrs/attributes) and possibly to have been extracted from a binary 
> .apk file

I did extract it from an APK, but the file itself is a binary

> are the resource objects within a folder of the .apk file?

I wish I knew ...

I inspected two other files (next to the Manifest one), but neither had the 
sought-for strings.

Regards,
Rudy Wieser