[BUG] <annotation> tags are escaped to &lt;annotation> in plurals.xml

[FoseFx]

Information

1. Apktool Version (apktool -version) - 2.5.0
2. Operating System (Mac, Linux, Windows) - Linux
3. APK From? (Playstore, ROM, Other) - Apkmirror

Steps to Reproduce

0. Ensure app renders annotations properly
1. apktool d
2. Check res/values/plurals.xml to see all <annotation> tags are escaped to <annotation>
3. apktool b . --use-aapt2, sign and install
4. App displays annotation string

Workaround

Replace all <annotation with <annotation and </annotation with </annotation in plurals.xml and the app behaves as it should.

APK

https://www.dropbox.com/s/4afhhkxrduttn9c/twitch-11.0.0.apk

Questions to ask before submission

1. Have you tried apktool d, apktool b without changing anything?

   Yes

2. If you are trying to install a modified apk, did you resign it?

   Yes

3. Are you using the latest apktool version?

   Yes

[iBotPeaches]

Confirmed. Marked as bug.

Seems lots of confusion docs about this.

1. Here is list of things we should escape (no <) - https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/resources/string-resource#FormattingAndStyling

2. Later on in the HTML section it mentions escaping the HTML blocks per usual - https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/resources/string-resource

3. Newly added is annotations which don't need to be escaped (?) yet all other HTML blocks do (??) - https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/resources/string-resource

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Not going to be easy since Apktool doesn't presently have an allow/deny list of tags to escape or not.