Apktool/ROADMAP.md
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## Automatic Remapping of ResourceId
We currently prevent resourceIds from changing, by utilizing the `public.xml` file which makes the resources public, but
then prevents them to be used in some locations (`android:scheme`). The correct fix would be to record the resourceIds
and use dexlib2 (no regular expressions) to rewrite them to the new resourceId after the `resources.arsc` is built.
This would be a lookup table of old->new resourceIds leveraging the API of dexlib2 to do the replacement. Doing this
properly would nullify the need to do [#191](https://github.com/iBotPeaches/Apktool/issues/191)
Suggestions: [#244](https://github.com/iBotPeaches/Apktool/issues/244)
Discussions: [#2062](https://github.com/iBotPeaches/Apktool/issues/2062)
## Implicit Qualifiers Cleanup
Currently we have a mismatch between reading the folders and reading the qualifiers which leads to a mismatch between
implicit qualifiers like version (-v4, v13, etc).
This was first spotted in bug [#1272](https://github.com/iBotPeaches/Apktool/issues/1272).
This was attempted to be fixed in [!1758](https://github.com/iBotPeaches/Apktool/pull/1758/files), but had to be
reverted due to [this](https://github.com/iBotPeaches/Apktool/issues/1272#issuecomment-379345005).
Suggestions: [#2237](https://github.com/iBotPeaches/Apktool/issues/2237)
## Qualifier Plugin System
For some OEMs, past and present. They re-use qualifiers that AOSP ends up using. This with CTS is becoming very
rare and pretty much a problem of the past, but now custom modifications and more "off the cuff" OEMs are doing
it.
Apktool can't do anything because it stays true to AOSP. It would need a plugin system that controls how to
read the qualifiers. Or even an override file.
Suggestions: [#1420](https://github.com/iBotPeaches/Apktool/issues/1420)
## Library System
May like using Apktool outside of the cli tool. We should make it easier to consume, whether via
maven, jitpack, etc.
Additionally, some documentation on how to do this.
Suggestions: [#1301](https://github.com/iBotPeaches/Apktool/issues/1301), [#2102](https://github.com/iBotPeaches/Apktool/issues/2102)
## Non-reference Resources
Some applications may shove resources into the /res folder, but have no references to them. Apktool follows
the resource table, so these files are effectively abandoned.
Crawling the filesystem for non-checked files would be slow especially having to cross check with already
parsed files.
Suggestions: [#1366](https://github.com/iBotPeaches/Apktool/issues/1366)