diff --git a/xwords4/android/XWords4-bt/build.xml b/xwords4/android/XWords4-bt/build.xml
index ee9728451..22bb420e3 100644
--- a/xwords4/android/XWords4-bt/build.xml
+++ b/xwords4/android/XWords4-bt/build.xml
@@ -102,6 +102,11 @@
               failonerror="true" output="/dev/null" 
               />
 
+        <exec dir="." executable="../scripts/mk_xml.py" 
+              failonerror="true" output="/dev/null" 
+              >
+        </exec>
+
         <exec dir="." executable="../scripts/gen_gcmid.sh"
               output="src/org/eehouse/android/xw4bt/GCMConsts.java"
               failonerror="true" logError="true"
diff --git a/xwords4/android/XWords4/res/menu/.gitignore b/xwords4/android/XWords4/res/menu/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..eaa922c31
--- /dev/null
+++ b/xwords4/android/XWords4/res/menu/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+/board_menu.xml
+/chat_menu.xml
+/dicts_menu.xml
+/games_list_menu.xml
+/loc_menu.xml
+/studylist.xml
diff --git a/xwords4/android/scripts/mk_xml.py b/xwords4/android/scripts/mk_xml.py
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..c16704824
--- /dev/null
+++ b/xwords4/android/scripts/mk_xml.py
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+#!/usr/bin/python
+
+import glob, sys, re, os
+from lxml import etree
+
+pairs = {}
+
+STR_REF = re.compile('@string/(.*)$')
+
+def xform(src, dest):
+    doc = etree.parse(src)
+    for item in doc.findall('item'):
+        title = item.get('{http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android}title')
+        if title:
+            match = STR_REF.match(title)
+            if match: 
+                key = match.group(1)
+                if key in pairs:
+                    print key, "loc:" + key
+                    item.set('{http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android}title', "loc:" + key)
+    doc.write( dest, pretty_print=True )
+
+# Gather all localizable strings
+for path in glob.iglob( "res/values/strings.xml" ):
+    for action, elem in etree.iterparse(path):
+        if "end" == action and 'string' == elem.tag:
+            pairs[elem.get('name')] = True
+
+for subdir, dirs, files in os.walk('res_src'):
+    for file in files:
+        src = subdir + '/' + file
+        dest = src.replace( 'res_src', 'res', 1 )
+        xform( src, dest )