Manually edited strings.xml gets overwritten

kefir500 / apk-icon-editor

APK editor to easily change APK icons, name and version.

https://qwertycube.com/apk-icon-editor/

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Manually edited strings.xml gets overwritten #80

Open membersound opened 5 years ago

membersound commented 5 years ago

I'd like to apply some manual changes to data\temp\apk-icon-editor\apk\res\values\strings.xml.

I'm trying as follows:

open apk with the tool change strings.xml and safe create apk with the tool.

As a result, my manually changed file is always restored by apk-editor, and my changes are not packaged into the final apk.

What am I doing wrong? It manual editing not supported?

kefir500 commented 5 years ago

Do you change your application title via APK Icon Editor Translations tab? If yes, then APK Icon Editor will overwrite the xml files containing the app title translations right before packaging APK.

membersound commented 5 years ago

Oh ok I see. So it's acutally a feature. Yes I'm using that additionally. It worked when ignoring the tab!

kefir500 commented 5 years ago

Actually, this can be considered as an unwanted behavior, so I'll mark it as a bug and reopen the issue. BTW, you may also try out APK Editor Studio which provides more consistent app editing flow.