but I'm damned if I can get app_name or anything else in the main app to be overwritten by the info in strings.xml. As far as I can tell I'm doing everything that's suggested online but it's just not working for some reason.
Sorry but I don't understand your problem. If I edit some strings in app/src/banglejs/res/values/strings.xml and run I see the new values in the virtual device.
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I forked and downloaded your branch.
Sorry but I don't understand your problem. If I edit some strings in
app/src/banglejs/res/values/strings.xml
and run I see the new values in the virtual device.Am I missing something?