Well, I managed to drop 30% off the size of my APK by munging most of the strings over from res/ to assets/ during the build.
Thought I was home dry, but then switching to French noticed that the special characters (acute etc) were coming out as the odd '?' symbol. I would say the encoding is wrong, but it looks OK. This is how I read the strings.xml from assets/ InputStream is = am.open( path ); XmlPullParser xp = XmlPullParserFactory.newInstance().newPullParser(); xp.setInput( is, "UTF-8" ); Any ideas ? Spent hours trying to fix this. Pent -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en