I am not affiliated with crowdin in any way. But I would like to point out how helpful their service is in bringing my app to a wider audience.
With about 300.000 users, I have a reasonably popular app and get requests for translations all the time. Many users even offer to do a translation themselves. When I send them my string.xml file, most users quickly drop their interest as the file has more than 600 strings. But coordinating several people to work on a single string.xml is a nightmare, especially if several translations for a particular string begin to compete with each other. I don't even speak those languages, how am I to decide whose translation is better? And what if I decide to add a few strings to the xml file? Now I need to run after 10 translators to get those additional sentences included. Then I found this gem: http://crowdin.net The tool is free for open source projects and reasonably priced for others (I pay $15 per month). Now I just direct interested users to their website and they can translate a few sentences or whole app (and I reward the top contributors with profit sharing of my app). Previous translation work can easily be uploaded, new strings can easily be added, and it makes the whole translation process a lot easier. Customer support has been great; all my issues have been address very quickly. Cheers, Martin mobitobi -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
