Saturday, September 18, 2010

Android String Resource Translator has been open sourced!


Many apps on the Android Market are made by a single developer. Because of this it's really hard to provide apps that are accessible to many users outside of their native language. Today, I am releasing a tool to help that problem.

This tool will take your Android project and scan it for string resources. (They should reside in the res/values/string.xml file). These resources will then be translated to a bunch of different languages and placed in the appropriate folders automatically.

It has been released as an open source project under the GPLv3 license. If you want to contribute please let me know.



Lastly, this utility uses Bing as the backend so be kind to their servers. Only use this tool just before release.


  
Android Market panel showing the My Location Widget localized to many languages.

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