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 translate JSON file?

Accepted Answer

The easiest way on how to translate JSON file is to use an online service, such as Localazy. This way, you can translate multilingual JSON files, JSON5 files or HJSON files and seamlessly integrate translation management system into your workflow.

Question 6

Is it possible to download the files to their original locations, with the updated translations. Is it possible?

Accepted Answer

Yes, translations are downloaded to their original locations.

Question 7

How source phrase quota works

Accepted Answer

Phrases limit works over all of the apps under your account. You can increase the limit with a one-time payment and increase your limit forever. You will be informed in advance when you are close to the limit.

Question 8

What is the maximum possible length of translation text?

Accepted Answer

There is no hard limit at the moment, but it’s recommended to keep the size of each individual item under 4kB. This corresponds to 4,000 characters encoded as UTF-8 and 2,000 characters encoded as UTF-16. Uploading longer texts won’t yield any errors, but might get refused by some external translation engines integrated in Localazy.

Question 9

What are some internationalization best practices?

Accepted Answer

Product internationalization is a pretty vast area and depending on the nature of your product & markets you are considering, i18n can comprise of different operations and best practices. However, you can learn more about software internationalization on our blog.

Few points about internationalization 🔗

Take localization into account in the early stages of development. Introducing multilingual support once you are rolling requires extra work on your part and makes you more likely to forget something important. Think about localization throughout your product as a whole, e.g., don’t allow the backend to send untranslated messages.
Make sure you handle string interpolation correctly from the very beginning. For example, don’t concatenate but use placeholders instead. Manage strings with various plural forms properly etc
Use plurals the right way, e.g., don’t use plural zero for an empty check.
The previous two points will help you prevent the most common problems when you start implementing more “exotic” languages, such as RTL languages or those without plurals.
Double-check that you handle date formats etc., correctly as well. Unfortunately, this is something that we can’t do for you - it’s a matter of proper implementation within your code.
Separate configuration from localization
Make sure your design is ready

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