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 language should I translate to? If my app was localized in Spanish would I get more downloads from Spain and Central America? If German would the German numbers look more like the UK numbers? Mostly asking this to see if anyone else can shed some light. Jason On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Charlie <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 provide an online portal for people to submit their translations > to. This would be ideal! However, since my app isn't open source, I > would need a $$$ commercial launchpad license to do this with :-/ > > Another option that could work is to set up a Pootle server (http:// > translate.sourceforge.net/wiki/pootle/index) > > If your question on 'Impact on downloads' refers to the number of > downloads increasing, then no.. > If it refers to the overall size of the download, I've just done a > very quick test, APK size with just english: 398KB, APK size with > english + 5 translations: 474KB. (For reference, the size of my > english/default 'values' folder is 45KB) > > Hope this helps! > > Charlie > > On Oct 12, 2:39 pm, Jason Van Anden <[email protected]> wrote: > > How have non-multilingual indy devs gone about translating their apps for > > different languages? > > > > I don't mean how do you localize ... I mean, how did you get translation > > done (paid, bartered, online translator, ...)? > > > > Did you notice an impact on downloads? > > > > Jason Van Anden > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
