Multilingual support - best practice

[Markus]

I am on my first app and actually am off to a good start :-)

One thing I would like to know is the best practice for globalization of an app.

I implemented a function which lets the user choose a language.

What I now want is an easy managable way to have loclisation.

In my web apps .net this would be .resx files. Telerik pointed me to this link http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9535258/multi-language-html5-application


However this seems to me to be a bit cumbersome if you have 1000 things to translate (which I don't have).

can strings.xml files be used as described in http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/resources/localization.html
somehow.

I guess someone must have made a multi-lingual app and care share his/her findings and best practis.

Looking forward to your feedback and if possible some code examples :-)

Markus

[Markus]

Don't tell me no one ever used Icenium to build multi lingual apps!

Markus

[Steve]

Hello Markus,

The article you point to is for native Android app, while you do not currently have access to res/values/strings.xml in Icenium. We would consider exposing these files, to further improve the control users have over their apps. You can suggest this over our feedback portal.

Regards,
Steve
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[Markus]

Dear Steve 

Thanks for the feedback. I know that the link with the strings.xml was native Android. But somtimes its not so bad to see how others do it. 

So at the moment I am simply stuck with the recomended: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9535258/multi-language-html5-application approach?

This got to be very high on the to do list for Icenium.

Develop Apps in iOS and Android but only one language!

Any one else comming up with a good idea?
Any one else has actually made a multilingual app with Icenium?

Markus

[Steve]

Hi Markus,

I suspect that your confusion comes from the fact that you come from .NET background, where the framework does those things for you. However in HTML 5 app, there is no such framework to back you up as your app is basically ran by the browser.

So to summarize, irrelevant of whether your localization would be contained in .js or .xml files, you would need to handle the localization logic yourself as shown in the SOF link we referred to you. There are some js libraries out there that can assist you with this task e.g.: l10n.

Regards,
Steve
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[Markus]

Dear Steve

Not confused just beeing put back 30 years to word for DOS.

Thank's for linking again. However if Icenium would implement some kind of easy way to localize an app I would assume this would be a huge selling point.

Markus

[Steve]

Hi Markus,

Icenium is basically IDE and build services in the cloud, so such feature have to be made available either from Cordova or from external .js library such as Kendo UI.

Regards,
Steve
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