[android-developers] Re: How did you localize your app?

2009-10-13 Thread Jason Van Anden
Wouldn't these words apply to any app? Is this resource available to the public? Jason Van Anden http://www.bubblebeats.com On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 3:51 PM, Brian Conrad brianjto...@gmail.com wrote: I haven't noticed if Android has done this but at least one other non-phone platform I

[android-developers] Re: How did you localize your app?

2009-10-13 Thread Steve
Look in the RES folder under platforms in the SDK. There's all of the localized strings to support the default apps, so you can get things like, yes, no, cancel, etc. On Oct 13, 5:54 am, Jason Van Anden jason.van.an...@gmail.com wrote: Wouldn't these words apply to any app?  Is this resource

[android-developers] Re: How did you localize your app?

2009-10-13 Thread Jason Van Anden
Super idea. Thanks, j On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Steve steveoliv...@gmail.com wrote: Look in the RES folder under platforms in the SDK. There's all of the localized strings to support the default apps, so you can get things like, yes, no, cancel, etc. On Oct 13, 5:54 am, Jason Van

[android-developers] Re: How did you localize your app?

2009-10-12 Thread Yusuf Saib (T-Mobile USA)
Machine translation quality varies from good to humorous. A few extra strings in your code, and the logic to handle them, shouldn't add much to the download. Yusuf Saib Android ·T· · ·Mobile· stick together The views, opinions and statements in this email are those of the author solely in

[android-developers] Re: How did you localize your app?

2009-10-12 Thread Charlie
Hi, I'm relying on volunteers to translate my app (Thinking Space) via email. Managing the translations this way is difficult and slow, many people offer to translate, however get scared off once they get the XML files. I would like to use something like launchpad (https://launchpad.net/ ) to

[android-developers] Re: How did you localize your app?

2009-10-12 Thread Jason Van Anden
Thanks... I meant ... did the number of downloads increase noticeably after doing a translation? Basically, trying to do a cost/benefit on localization. Analytics tells me that 40% of my users are from Europe, mostly from UK, but also from Germany and Italy. So the question becomes ... which

[android-developers] Re: How did you localize your app?

2009-10-12 Thread Brian Conrad
I haven't noticed if Android has done this but at least one other non-phone platform I develop for has furnished a file of common device used words and their translations. Noting it took a few years for that platform to do this I wouldn't hold my breathe for Android to do so but it would be