Arsc Decompiler May 2026

An is a specialized tool designed to parse, decode, and reconstruct this binary file back into human-readable formats—usually strings.xml and R.xxx definitions.

Build your own decompiler or resource analyzer.

def parse(self): # Top-level chunk self.read_uint32() # type self.read_uint32() # header size pkg_count = self.read_uint32() for _ in range(pkg_count): self.parse_package()

def parse_string_pool(self): chunk_type = self.read_uint32() # should be 0x0001 chunk_size = self.read_uint32() string_count = self.read_uint32() # Simplified: skip style count, flags, etc. self.pos += 20 offsets = [] for _ in range(string_count): offsets.append(self.read_uint32()) for off in offsets: # Strings are UTF-16, but we'll read until null str_pos = self.pos + off end = str_pos while self.data[end:end+2] != b'\x00\x00': end += 2 raw = self.data[str_pos:end].decode('utf-16le') self.string_pool.append(raw)