Question

Is there any way you can read the strings.xml file from an apk file?
I am not interested in libs or classes/code file just the strings defined in strings.xml

Answer 1

Yes you can extract all the Resource files using apktool

Steps –

1.) Download files from above links and extract them in a folder.
2.) Open cmd -> run 
3.) Run command as 
    apktool.bat d source.apk destination_path

OR

1.) Put apktool.jar and test.apk in same folder 
2.) Go to the jar and .apk path by command line
3.) And fire the command java -jar apktool.jar d test.apk
4.) It will generate a folder with the name "test" in the same folder.