Android Studio Exports Strings From Support Library To APK

Recently i switched from Eclipse to Android Studio. I have a project with multiple module dependencies. One dependency is the support library appcompat, included like this: depende

Solution 1:

At code.google.com they say that the gradle plugin has a option to restrict resources, since version 0.7.0 is released.

Note at version 0.7.0 Release notes:

New option on product Flavor (and defaultConfig) allow filtering of resources through the -c option of aapt

• You can pass single value (resConfig) or multiple values (resConfigs) through the DSL.
• All values from the default config and flavors get combined and passed to aapt.
• See "basic" sample.

Here is some sample code to put in the build.gradle file of your project:

android {
    defaultConfig {
        resConfigs "en", "de", "es" //Define languages that your app supports.
    }
}

I spent a lot of time to find the "Basic sample"...could be a link in the release notes :/ so there are the links:

• Gradle samples
• Basic sample
• Release notes

NOTE: Version 0.7.x requires Android Studio 0.4.+ and Gradle 1.9.

Solution 2:

Xamarin.Android solution may help someone facing this problem. Problem occurs also if you use Google Play Services. Add the following to Android project .csproj with supported app languages

<PropertyGroup>
     <AndroidUseAapt2>true</AndroidUseAapt2>
     <AndroidAapt2LinkExtraArgs>-c de,el,es,fr,it</AndroidAapt2LinkExtraArgs>
</PropertyGroup>