: Groupings of resources by category (e.g., string , drawable , layout ).
: The industry standard for decompiling and recompiling. It decodes resources to nearly their original form using the command: apktool d app.apk ArscEditor arsc decompiler
| Tool | Decompiles to | Accuracy | Speed | Maintained | |------|---------------|----------|-------|-------------| | Apktool (Brut.all) | res/values/*.xml | High | Medium | Yes | | enjarify-arsc | Raw dump | Low | Fast | No | | ArscBlamer (Uber) | CSV mapping | Medium | Fast | No | | jadx (resource decode) | In-memory only | Medium | Fast | Yes | | aapt2 dump strings | Text list | Low | Fast | Yes | : Groupings of resources by category (e
Resources in code are referenced by hexadecimal IDs (e.g., 0x7f040001 ). The decompiler must look up these IDs within the ARSC table to find the corresponding human-readable name (the "key") and its associated value or file path. 3.3 Reconstruction of XML The decompiler must look up these IDs within