Compile iOS strings files from command line

Question

Compiled iOS apps have localized strings files compiled into binary PList files and they are converted by Xcode.

Is there any way to compile them from command line from the original strings files?

Answer 1

I think I found what I was looking for:

plutil -convert binary1 Localizable.strings

Answer 2

plutil it is.

The build task is here /Developer/Library/Xcode/Plug-ins/CoreBuildTasks.xcplugin/Contents/Resources/CopyStringsFile.xcspec

It runs copystrings ruby script, which is based on iconv and plutil