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by toast0 1879 days ago
Yes. Take a random apk and look at it with a zip lister. If resource.asrc is compressed, someone didn't use the SDK tools to build it (and I'd be shocked).

What you described is about my understanding of what happens. I would hope it doesn't uncompress the whole thing on every access, but only far enough to read the value; but I'm not sure. Note that it's not just the app itself that uses the app's resources; other elements of the OS use them too.