> > The question is that I have created an application in two languages, as > it was my first one and I want to release it ASAP, I simply create two > different applications for each one (Spanish and English), and uploaded > them such way to Google Play. >
That doesn't make any sense... You wanted to get your app out the door faster so you created two different applications? All you had to do was add another strings.xml file and stick with one app... How would creating two applications be faster than adding a single file to your project? I have yet a clear idea on what changes I must do to my code for > supporting several languages at once, however this will generate some > problems with Google Play that I have not very clear how to address. > Any string that is displayed in the UI should be converted to a string reference... You will have a different values folder for each language you want to support... For example, re/values will contain a strings.xml file and it will usually be English. Then if you want to add another language, say French, you would create a res/values-fr folder that contains the French version of the strings.xml file The question is: what about the 30% of > Google Play? It will be returned to the user also? It will be charged to > me even when I refund the user? > I'm not 100% sure, but when I've refunded money it seemed like Google lost their 30%... Thanks, Justin Anderson MagouyaWare Developer http://sites.google.com/site/magouyaware On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 9:07 AM, Francisco M. Marzoa Alonso < fmmar...@gmail.com> wrote: > Greetings, > > Well, I know the subject sounds weird, but I do not know how to express > it better in a brief. > > The question is that I have created an application in two languages, as > it was my first one and I want to release it ASAP, I simply create two > different applications for each one (Spanish and English), and uploaded > them such way to Google Play. > > I have had no major problems with this, apart from loosing positioning > as installations and ratings are separated, but now I have planned to > release a new version in Italian and may be later in German, and I do > not want to keep them separated because I prefer that all installations > and ratting are in one application account instead of spread among > several ones. > > Also adding improvements and fixing bugs will be easier with just one > application than with one for each language. > > Moreover, I for each language I must maintain two versions: free with > ads and per pay without them. Not a major problem with just two > languages neither, but a bit annoying with four. > > I have yet a clear idea on what changes I must do to my code for > supporting several languages at once, however this will generate some > problems with Google Play that I have not very clear how to address. > > The first problem is that if I create a new application package, I will > lost all ratings and installs on previous one. I think the best solution > may be reusing the application package for the Spanish version, that is > about reaching 100 000 total installs and 1400 comments, and send the > English version to the trash, loosing just about 15 000 installs and 75 > comments. > > So, I am not specially concerned about that. But it happens that appart > from free versions of my app, I have also released per pay versions in > both Spanish and English. I do not care about loosing both the comments > and the installs on those, since I have just one comment in the English > version and less than 70 installs counting both English and Spanish, but > If I just discontinue the development of one of those, the users will > complain as they have paid for it. > > I do not want to just refund them for the old application, since I am > pretty sure that I will lost money because many of them may decide to > keep the old version even without updates instead of buying the new one > with the refunded money. So I have considered offering refund on the > purchase of the new app instead for those users that can probe that they > have purchased the old one. The question is: what about the 30% of > Google Play? It will be returned to the user also? It will be charged to > me even when I refund the user? > > Well, any ideas on this issue as a whole are welcome. > > Thanks a lot in advance, > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
