Android use of resources from an external file
<p>I have a non-standard Android application that has a requirement to load resources from an external file that is not part of the application apk.  These resources will be packaged separately and delivered as its own package.</p>

<p>There are a few different types of items that will be part of this external resource bundle.  One of those items includes the localized strings.xml file.  This philosophy allows the change of a string / translation that does not affect the deployment of the application (in other words, application.apk stays in tact, but the only difference is a new strings.xml).</p>

<p>I've been searching around, and this doesn't seem possible.  Is there any way?  Or does this philosophy mean completely abandoning the resources all together and writing a custom layer to pull these strings and other external resources from a file?</p>

<p>The application is for Honeycomb platform.</p>

<p>Thanks in advance for any advise.</p>
