Reading Strings.xml file from apk file

Question

Is there any way you can read the strings.xml file from an apk file?
I am not interested in libs or classes/code file just the strings defined in strings.xml

Answer 1

Yes you can extract all the Resource files using apktool

Steps -

1.) Download files from above links and extract them in a folder. 2.) Open cmd -> run  3.) Run command as      apktool.bat d source.apk destination_path 

OR

1.) Put apktool.jar and test.apk in same folder  2.) Go to the jar and .apk path by command line 3.) And fire the command java -jar apktool.jar d test.apk 4.) It will generate a folder with the name "test" in the same folder. 

Answer 2

Download android-apktool (download dependencies also if required), extract all in the same directory and run apktool d application.apk