Q: How to protect my private strings?

<p>You can easily <a href="/docs/android/exclude-strings-and-files-from-upload">exclude strings and files from upload</a>. Make sure you do not include your Admob IDs and so on.</p>

Question 1

Do I have to integrate Localazy Android Library?

Accepted Answer

Localazy Android Library is optional. It brings your app a lot of benefits, but we also understand that maybe you are not happy to integrate 3rd party libraries into your app.

Hence, you can just use our CLI without Localazy Android library.

Question 2

The changes made on Localazy are not applied to my app?

Accepted Answer

It may take up to 15-30 minutes to publish changes and replicate them to all our servers. Also, be sure to clean your project as we use intensive caching to speed up building your app and reduce the data transfers for the end-users.

Question 3

How much Localazy plugin has hold on application code?

Accepted Answer

The plugin indeed changes the bytecode of your app in several places. It looks for certain patterns to identify where the changes are needed. However, it never sends your source code nor the bytecode to anywhere and all changes are made strictly to inject the OTA feature.

Honestly, any plugin you add to your project can access your source code, resources and bytecode and our plugin is no different from Firebase or Google Services in term how it changes your bytecode.

We are ready to sign a contract binding us to not send your source code, resources or bytecode anywhere and inject only code strictly needed for OTA features.

The second option is to use our CLI, but you will lose the comfort of the automatic resolution of your project structure and OTA updates.

Question 4

Is the app source code uploaded to Localazy?

Accepted Answer

Worried about your source code? Don’t be. All your source code remains only on your machine. The only thing uploaded to Localazy are the strings to be translated.

Question 5

How to protect my private strings?

Accepted Answer

You can easily exclude strings and files from upload. Make sure you do not include your Admob IDs and so on.

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