Dictionary of terms

Amplitude is behavioural analytics platform created by Amplitude Analytics, Inc. in 2012.

Android is one of mobile operating systems for mobile devices, primarily designed for touchscreen devices such as smartphones and tablets.

Android Studio, an official Integrated Development Environment for Android mobile OS development.

Angular is a framework similar to React in that they are both used to create web applications. Angular is developed by Google and is written in TypeScript. Angular is also a rewrite from AngularJS.

App monetization is a process of turning investment into revenue.

CAT Tool stands for Computer-aided Translation Tool and is used to increase translation process productivity.

CI can stand for Continuous Integration or Continuous Improvement. What is the difference?

Connected Apps is the name of a Localazy add-on allowing users to share translations across multiple apps.

Continuous Improvement is a never-ending, repetitive process of learning and improvement.

Continuous Integration

Cordova is an open-source mobile application development framework. It was previously known as both Nitobi and PhoneGap. While being open-sourced, it is managed by Adobe.

Externalized string enables app developers to maintain translations.

Google Firebase is a mobile and web application development platform developed by Firebase, Inc. in 2011, then acquired by Google in 2014. Nowadays, it does include 18 products with nearly 2 million users.

Flutter is SDK made by Google for building natively compiled applications for mobile, web and desktop from a single codebase.

Framework7 is a tool that can both be used for prototyping but also it can be used for building app development for mobile, desktop, and the web.

GILT is an acronym for Globalization, Internationalization, Localization and Translation.

Globalization is a process of preparing a product for international use.

Gettext is a library that was built to minimize the work of i18n and l10n. It works by extracting the strings directly from the source files and generating a template file.

Gradle is an open-source build automation tool that is designed to be flexible enough to build almost any type of software.

Human-Assisted Machine Translation, i.e., MT plus post-editing and/ or pre-editing;

i18next is one of the top open-source internationalization frameworks written in and for JavaScript.

Integrated Development Kit help developers to perform all they need at one place.

IntelliJ IDEA by JetBrains is an integrated development environment (IDE) written in Java for developing computer software.

Internationalisation is a process of making your software localisable.

inTM is Localazy internal translation memory engine covering translation memory needs within a given mobile app.

Ionic is an open-source software development kit for mobile operating systems. It was originally built on top of Angular but now it allows developers to use one of several pre-existing web components such as React.

iOS is a mobile devices operating system developed by Apple Inc. exclusively for Apple devices.

JavaScript is also known as ECMAscript and is used for both websites and is frequently used server-side as NodeJS.

L10n is an abbreviation of Localization.

Laravel is an open-source PHP framework for web application development.

Localization is a process of preparing a product for a particular market.

LSP stands for Language Service Provider.

Machine Translation is a process of translation using computational linguistics.

Machine-Assisted Human Translation, i.e., human uses computer for help, as desired;

MTPE stands for Machine Translation Post-Editing.

NodeJS is a run-time JavaScript enviroment for server-side use.

Not to be translated term.

Nuxt is described as a meta framework for applications. It is based on several different frameworks and is written in JavaScript.

PDCA cycle is a method of continuous improvement in quality assurance.

Python is an interpreted, high-level and general-purpose programming language and is one of the most popular languages.

Qt is a cross-platform toolkit for creating applications with a graphical user interface (GUI).

Rails i18n is internationalisation for Ruby. It offers YAML integration.

React is a development kit written in NodeJS. It is used for building frontend components of applications. Notable apps that use React include Facebook and Netflix.

Shared translation memory at Localazy

Swift is a programming language that is used for developing applications for Apple operating systems: macOS, iOS, iPadOS, and watchOS.

Translation is a process of text transformation into another language.

Translation Management System is a software for translation process automation.

Translation Memory is a data storage of translated terms. It helps to cut the translation costs and improve translation productivity.

TypeScript is a language based on JavaScript made by Microsoft. It compiles into JavaScript and is statically typed.

Unity is a multi-platform game development kit. It is written in C# and can be used to make both 2d and 3d games.

VueJS is a JavaScript/TypeScript front-end framework. It was created by Evan You as an alternative to Angular. It is MIT licensed and is used for both user interfaces and single-page applications.