diff --git a/lib/AndroidLayoutFile.js b/lib/AndroidLayoutFile.js
index fdc56f157..244b98afd 100644
--- a/lib/AndroidLayoutFile.js
+++ b/lib/AndroidLayoutFile.js
@@ -158,13 +158,79 @@ AndroidLayoutFile.prototype.getContext = function() {
     return this.context;
 };
 
-AndroidLayoutFile.prototype.makeKey = function(type, source) {
+AndroidLayoutFile.prototype.makeOldKey = function(type, source) {
     if (type.substring(0, 8) === "android:") {
         type = type.substring(8);
     }
     return (type + '_' + source).replace(/[^a-zA-Z0-9\_]/g, "_");
 };
 
+var reUnicodeChar = /\\u([a-fA-F0-9]{1,4})/g;
+var reOctalChar = /\\([0-8]{1,3})/g;
+
+/**
+ * Unescape the string to make the same string that would be
+ * in memory in the target programming language. This includes
+ * unescaping both special and Unicode characters.
+ *
+ * @static
+ * @param {String} string the string to unescape
+ * @returns {String} the unescaped string
+ */
+AndroidLayoutFile.prototype.unescapeString = function(string) {
+    var unescaped = string;
+
+    while ((match = reUnicodeChar.exec(unescaped))) {
+        if (match && match.length > 1) {
+            var value = parseInt(match[1], 16);
+            unescaped = unescaped.replace(match[0], IString.fromCodePoint(value));
+            reUnicodeChar.lastIndex = 0;
+        }
+    }
+
+    while ((match = reOctalChar.exec(unescaped))) {
+        if (match && match.length > 1) {
+            var value = parseInt(match[1], 8);
+            unescaped = unescaped.replace(match[0], IString.fromCodePoint(value));
+            reOctalChar.lastIndex = 0;
+        }
+    }
+
+    unescaped = unescaped.
+        replace(/^\\\\/g, "\\").
+        replace(/([^\\])\\\\/g, "$1\\").
+        replace(/\\'/g, "'").
+        replace(/\\"/g, '"');
+
+    return unescaped;
+};
+
+/**
+ * Clean the string to make a source string. This means
+ * removing leading and trailing white space, compressing
+ * whitespaces, and unescaping characters. This changes
+ * the string from what it looks like in the source
+ * code.
+ *
+ * @static
+ * @param {String} string the string to clean
+ * @returns {String} the cleaned string
+ */
+AndroidLayoutFile.prototype.cleanString = function(string) {
+    var unescaped = this.unescapeString(string);
+
+    unescaped = unescaped.
+        replace(/\\[btnfr]/g, " ").
+        replace(/[ \n\t\r\f]+/g, " ").
+        trim();
+
+    return unescaped;
+};
+
+AndroidLayoutFile.prototype.makeKey = function(type, source) {
+    return utils.hashKey(this.cleanString(source))
+};
+
 var localizableAttributes = {
     "android:title": true,
     "android:text": true,