#StringMangler

StringMangler is an utility that performs various Android string resources manipulations.

Requirements

In order to use StringMangler, you need a .Net Framework 2.0 Runtime, or Mono. StringMangler should work on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.

Usage

StringMangler is a command line tool. It has two commands, copy and delete.

Copy

The copy command copies all Android strings resources matching a regex from a source res dir to a destination one. This is the syntax:

[mono] smangler.exe c[opy] source_dir dest_dir [strings_filter]

• source_dir is the full path of the res directory of the source Android project. It will be scanned for files called strings.xml in folders named values, and values-[a-z]{2}
• dest_dir is the full path of the res directory of the source Android project. Strings will be added to all strings.xml files within the corresponding values folders (they will be created if they don't exist yet)
• strings_filter is a .Net-flavored regular expression that string names will be matched against. This parameter is optional; if you don't specify it, the application will copy all strings it finds

Delete

The delete command removes all Android strings resources matching a regex in a source res dir. This is the syntax:

[mono] smangler.exe d[elete] res_dir strings_filter

• res_dir is the full path of the res directory of the Android project to work on. It will be scanned for files called strings.xml in folders named values, and values-[a-z]{2}
• strings_filter is a .Net-flavored regular expression that string names will be matched against.

Notes

Please note that the leading [mono] token is only necessary when you are running the application on Mono, for example under Linux or Mac OS X. On Windows, you should already have the Microsoft .Net Framework 2.0 (or later) runtime available on the system.

Known limitations

At the moment, the application is a "quick&dirty" tool. It doesn't do much error handling for filesystem errors, malformed XML, etc, and it does not check if a string is already present in the destination folder when using copy. Also, it only searches for strings into strings.xml files, and only writes them to strings.xml files, without the ability to customize that.

License

This source code is provided under the BSD 3-clause license:

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