This script is useful for extracting all strings from a multimodule Android project. It supports different output formats which may be useful for you. Currently supported csv, yaml, dynodict-yaml. JSON is coming soon.

NOTE: Before starting using this tool, please run in your project root otherwise you may get a lot of rubbish strings in the output file:

./gradlew clean

This tool can be installed via PIP repositiory by running the following command:

pip install android-text-tool

or if you use Poetry, run this:

poetry add android-text-tool

Run the tool in the root directory of your project(please, don't forget to clean it before to prevent extracting strings from different libraries you use).

android-text-tool . -f csv

As a result, you'll get a CSV file which contains all string resources from your project.

android-text-tool [-h] -f {csv,yaml,dynodict} [-l DEFAULT_LANGUAGE] path

Positional arguments:

• path - the path of the Android project to scan.

Optional arguments:

• -f {csv,yaml,dynodict}, --format {csv,yaml,dynodict} - the output format to save the translations. Default is csv.
• -l DEFAULT_LANGUAGE, --default-language DEFAULT_LANGUAGE - the default language for the translations. This language code will be used for strings inside value folder. Default is en.

This is a comma-separated sheet.

Example:

key,es,ht,fr,en
translation1,Test1,Test1,Test1,Test1
translation2,Test1,Test1,Test1,Test1
translation3,Test1,Test1,Test1,Test1

Example:

languages:
- en
- ht
- es
- fr
name: Exported project - 2023-11-03T02:29:50
translations:
- key: strings.xml
  translations:
  - key: translation1
    values:
      en: Test1
      fr: Test1
      ht: Test1
  - key: translation2
    values:
      en: Test1
      fr: Test1
      ht: Test1

This format is for a tool which is going to be released soon. It's under development. Please, do not use it.