7. App Localizations

[@berkantdursun5148]

Hi Stewart, I thought I didn't need to learn anything more about localization but I learned a lot of new things today. Thank you and best regards from Germany.

[@BenHall-ku5ov]

Stewart, I've found the localization approach so helpful, Thank you, thus far I have yet to fail finding ways to improve my creative problem solving skills viewing your Swift tutorials..

[@AndrewDChristie]

Thanks!

[@StewartLynch]

Thanks Andrew

[@jorgenandreason9099]

Thanks

[@StewartLynch]

Thank you very much.

[@DavidKoontz]

a great primer on making international language apps

[@Decatilinae]

Super helpful course... It also provides me some useful tricks on exporting directly from Xcode. Please do another video for the new accessibility features to complete the series with the Haptic engine. Thanks for sharing this course

[@tobiomotayo]

Very helpful video. Thanks for making this and showing your workflow.

[@Mahadev-x7u]

Thank you so very much Stewart 💯🔥

[@alexmerlin9211]

Thank you! Great video!

[@StewartLynch]

You are very welcome!

[@jorgenandreason9099]

Thanks Stewart. Really good series. Looking forward to the iCloud implementation. I would also like to know how I can share the data between family members.

[@StewartLynch]

Sharing data between others is not possible with SwiftData yet. It only supports the private database. For that, you would need to use Core Data

[@david_lev]

Very helpful video, Thanks! Just a quick note for the chatgpt part, you can provide any structure of data to gpt and ask him to fill it with the translations in the right places. I don't think it's necessary to convert the data back and to json again.

[@StewartLynch]

Thanks. Good to know

[@Jager-yoo]

Thanks for this great tutorial.

[@magnas35]

Superb explanation - many thanks! Is there a way to create the InfoPlist.xcstrings file without first having to export the Localizable file and import? I have Privacy strings that need to be translated and this seems a roundabout kind of way to create the file. Thanks again for your hard work!

[@HanishGuptaHoney]

Do we can also change the App Icon based on system settings of locale like the App name without selection inside app through code?

[@StewartLynch]

Not that I am aware of

[@NickGiarraputo]

Will this work with storyboards? I followed the instructions but my storyboards are not translating.

[@DaveJacobseniOS]

I love the playground hack! Thanks for sharing.

[@StewartLynch]

I use to do a lot of parsing of strings in a past life so I did this kind of thing all the time. I am sure regex experts will cringe

[@aleksandertesenkov1421]

Excellent video.

[@StewartLynch]

Glad you liked it!

[@marijkehagemans4332]

Thanks this is very helpful. I did see that the date was not localized, maybe something for a new video, how to localize dates.

[@StewartLynch]

Does the date get localized when run on the device rather than simulator? I just did not set the locale

[@nigelgee3576]

If you go to (in Xcode) to Product menu then hold the option key and click “Run” (option+cmd+R) you can change the App Language without going to Settings on simulator. PS this will also show that language in preview until “Run” again.

[@StewartLynch]

Thanks Nigel. Good to know.

[@abdorizak]

is this support also UIKit?

[@KnowFactum]

Hello I love you videos, you explain very well. Can you re-do another one about source control (stages and these new things) cause I didn’t code for a lot and when I committed my project when I opened it, the project crashed and couldn’t be opened. Thanks 😊

[@StewartLynch]

Have you watched the other videos in this series?

[@AsifFinlark]

Great!

[@tazman7689]

Stewart, tried to use the playground and it never worked for me. It returned the exact string I put in words with quotes {} etc …. Not sure why. You kinda moved fast over what you were selecting to paste in the words var. So I might have not pasted exactly what you pasted. Just food for thought. I ended up doing it the long way.

[@rickywitherspoon2861]

How does this work for words based on gender? Spanish for example has masculine and feminine versions of some of its words.

[@StewartLynch]

You provide the translation so you provide the gender. The strings are all in context as you provide it.

[@rickywitherspoon2861]

But in English, we don’t always have a gendered version. How we we know if in the context, the Spanish translation should be one of the other? Wouldn’t that depend on the preferred gender orientation of the user?

[@StewartLynch]

@rickywitherspoon2861 I don’t understand what you are getting at. Can you provide an example?

[@rickywitherspoon2861]

@@StewartLynch If you throw "The student went on a trip." into google translate, you get two results. "La estudiante fue de viaje." is the feminine translation and "El estudiante fue de viaje." is the masculine translation. How can we have multiple translations in the localization file for this?

[@StewartLynch]

@rickywitherspoon2861 if you were a Spanish speaker? What would the string be that you would use in your app? If you have a setting that asks for your gender you would have to have two strings or a computed string to determine the correct article and word ending. An interesting point you have raised Ricky. I would try to avoid gender based strings if possible.

[@markaurelius61]

The German word for quote is Zitat, not Zinat.

[@StewartLynch]

Oops. Typo. Sorry

[@markaurelius61]

@@StewartLynch Kein Problem (No problem ;) )

[@StewartLynch]

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[@子漾]

Cool

[@bjp_for_2024]

how we can add one setting option inside application to change the language ?

[@StewartLynch]

This would be an entirely different process. The way this implementation works is based on the language that the user specifies in the Settings app, not in the application itself