Tips for Multilingual Support in 17 Countries
summary
An Android app was localized into 17 languages using 14 outsourced translators; to manage fast turnarounds the developer built an Alice plugin that pushes selected strings.xml entries to translation APIs and reintegrates results, and also used Android Studio Translation Editor. Locale handling used MoreLocale2 and a static setLocale/updateConfiguration method; plurals used getQuantityString, number/date formatting used NumberFormat and DateUtils.getBestDateTimePattern, and RTL support was added with supportRtl=true, auto-mirrored drawables, and position-conversion wrappers.
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chapters (16)
- 0:00Introduction
- 6:45Multilingual challenges
- 9:39XML strings management
- 12:56Translation workflow
- 18:46Translation service criteria
- 26:41Arabic editing tips
- 29:05Currency and numerals
- 31:35Date and time zones
- 33:42Time display settings
- 35:52RTL basics
- 39:10RTL fine-tuning
- 40:38RTL images
- 42:22Indian numerals
- 43:51Text length design
- 45:56Line spacing tips
- 46:38Summary
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