[android-developers] Re: Are you localizing an app? Do you want to be?

2009-05-31 Thread havexz
I want test my app in different language. Currently I am able to change the language of the emulator 1.5 and my app starts showing strings for that language but when i type in the edit box it still shows english. Do I have to change some code so that my edit box n everything else supports

[android-developers] Re: Are you localizing an app? Do you want to be?

2009-05-24 Thread Alan Jones
I had a suggestion regarding multiple languages and apks etc. There are a few issues I can see. The bandwidth as you've mentioned, the management of multiple .apks as others have mentioned in this thread and then there's people needing to buy the application multiple times if they wish to get

[android-developers] Re: Are you localizing an app? Do you want to be?

2009-05-19 Thread AlexK
Hi, Today I release a new version of Android Localization utility. It helps to translate android applications in few simple steps and even can translate application automatically. I hope everyone will find it useful. Thanks. Application is FREE and open source:

[android-developers] Re: Are you localizing an app? Do you want to be?

2009-05-11 Thread yurita
yeah..I put all strings in the res folder to take advantage of localizing ... perhaps I'll translate my apps into chinese and janpanese... but it's not really needed at this time --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the

[android-developers] Re: Are you localizing an app? Do you want to be?

2009-04-06 Thread BIRJODH
good On Mar 23, 8:23 pm, clark clarkd...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone know if it is possible to localize the application description which shows up in the market?  It's great that all my strings can be localized, but how are the users in other regions going to know what an application does if the

[android-developers] Re: Are you localizing an app? Do you want to be?

2009-04-06 Thread BIRJODH
good On Mar 23, 8:23 pm, clark clarkd...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone know if it is possible to localize the application description which shows up in the market?  It's great that all my strings can be localized, but how are the users in other regions going to know what an application does if the

[android-developers] Re: Are you localizing an app? Do you want to be?

2009-03-23 Thread clark
Anyone know if it is possible to localize the application description which shows up in the market? It's great that all my strings can be localized, but how are the users in other regions going to know what an application does if the description is not in their native language? Regards, ~clark

[android-developers] Re: Are you localizing an app? Do you want to be?

2009-03-03 Thread Nanard
Hi Us (developper) have not infinite resources. I have started to translate my application, but I don't know which languages are the most urgent (English, Spanish, German, French). It would be great if on the official Android site, we had a page showing all countries where Android devices are

[android-developers] Re: Are you localizing an app? Do you want to be?

2009-03-03 Thread Al Sutton
As you can only buy consumer devices in the UK US I would suggest English should be the primary language for your application. Beyond that it really depends on where devices become available and which countries you wish to support. Al. http://andappstore.com/ Nanard wrote: Hi Us

[android-developers] Re: Are you localizing an app? Do you want to be?

2009-03-03 Thread Nanard
It's available in Germany ans Spain. And this week in France. I even had one customer for my application having a .jp mail adress I had to browser several web sites, blogs to find the info. It would be very helpfull if an official web page could be available to track this. On 3 mar,

[android-developers] Re: Are you localizing an app? Do you want to be?

2009-03-03 Thread Nanard
In the US, I suppose there are a lot of Spanish speaking people which have Android phones also :-) --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to

[android-developers] Re: Are you localizing an app? Do you want to be?

2009-03-03 Thread Al Sutton
From the looks of the Wikipedia article it http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_Dream looks like it should also be available in Poland, Australia, and Singapore. Germany is confirmed, but Spain seems to be in question. I guess it's now a question of which languages are you comfortable doing

[android-developers] Re: Are you localizing an app? Do you want to be?

2009-03-03 Thread Nanard
There are online translation services. They are not really good, but for text button/GUI having in english 1 to 3 words, it should be well translated. And also : I (we all) need that for advertisement :-) --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you

[android-developers] Re: Are you localizing an app? Do you want to be?

2009-02-15 Thread Nox
Sorry that I write here a message,but I`ve already written a few new messages in a new theme,but it doesn`t appear!!! I can´t publish my app,because there´s always an error message : The apk is not properly signed. But how can I sign it??? On 3 Feb., 14:51, Peli peli0...@googlemail.com

[android-developers] Re: Are you localizing an app? Do you want to be?

2009-02-03 Thread Peli
I have the same question. Dan, in the document you provided, in the section Publishing Localized Applications, the possibility is mentioned to break their .apk files apart into different builds for different groups of languages. The following suggestion is given: The easiest way to do this is

[android-developers] Re: Are you localizing an app? Do you want to be?

2009-01-27 Thread Jeffrey Sharkey
Another quick tip regarding localization is that the framework offers some helpful APIs and strings that are already translated into several languages. Two particularly useful strings are android.R.string.ok and android.R.string.cancel for dialogs, in addition to all sorts of day-of-week and

[android-developers] Re: Are you localizing an app? Do you want to be?

2009-01-27 Thread alex
When we upload our localized apps to the Market, will we be able to provide our application descriptions in different languages? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to

[android-developers] Re: Are you localizing an app? Do you want to be?

2009-01-27 Thread Christoph Studer
I was looking for something like DateUtils for my application. I think this class is not in the current SDK, but only available in cupcake. Christoph On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 10:32 AM, Jeffrey Sharkey jeffrey.shar...@gmail.com wrote: Another quick tip regarding localization is that the

[android-developers] Re: Are you localizing an app? Do you want to be?

2009-01-27 Thread Nock
I want to ask same question. Recently I found some applications which has only Japanese title and description note. The system and our phones seems able to handle such codes (UTF-8?) correctly, but many people confused to see it. Of course, current market system still not yet support Japanese,

[android-developers] Re: Are you localizing an app? Do you want to be?

2009-01-20 Thread pjv
About the androidxml2po converter: I made one and wrote about it here: http://groups.google.com/group/openintents/browse_thread/thread/84d7b059d0b15390?hl=en. On 18 jan, 16:10, Evgeny V evgen...@gmail.com wrote:  I have asked the almost same question

[android-developers] Re: Are you localizing an app? Do you want to be?

2009-01-18 Thread madcoder
I'm curious how this will impact me and others like me who are English- speakers but staying in a foreign country. I live in Thailand, and I often deal with many 'localization' problems. For example, when I log onto Google groups, it references the http://groups.google.co.th/, and all the menus

[android-developers] Re: Are you localizing an app? Do you want to be?

2009-01-18 Thread Evgeny V
I have asked the almost same question here: http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/thread/de088f2f8dd42bff/14244bd62179222d?hl=en Hopefully next SDK will support *application scope *(not regional scope) localization. I can't see Now any ways to implement multilanguage

[android-developers] Re: Are you localizing an app? Do you want to be?

2009-01-16 Thread pjv
At the moment my thoughts are mainly going towards an android-xml-to- po-converter tool. This would be very useful since gettext is a quite ubiquitous translation tool in the open source world. See my related feature request at Launchpad: https://bugs.launchpad.net/rosetta/+bug/275290. On 15

[android-developers] Re: Are you localizing an app? Do you want to be?

2009-01-16 Thread Dianne Hackborn
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 4:26 AM, Mike Hearn mh.in.engl...@gmail.com wrote: * The directory names are a bit odd - why do they have an extraneous 'r' in them? The way this works is that each component of the directory name must be uniquely identifiable. So to be able to distinguish between the

[android-developers] Re: Are you localizing an app? Do you want to be?

2009-01-15 Thread Teo
I have a question.. Currently i have values, values-en and values-fr for my strings. Basically, my question is: do i need values if it's only a copy of values-en? If there is no values folder will the values- en become the default no matter what language the user has (except fr of course)?

[android-developers] Re: Are you localizing an app? Do you want to be?

2009-01-09 Thread bwilliam...@gmail.com
Thanks for this, but specifically thanks for the command that switches locale. On Jan 6, 8:19 am, Dan Morrill morri...@google.com wrote: We have been working on some documentation to help developers localize their applications, in anticipation of Android devices becoming available in more

[android-developers] Re: Are you localizing an app? Do you want to be?

2009-01-08 Thread Mike Hearn
Looks good! A few comments: * The directory names are a bit odd - why do they have an extraneous 'r' in them? Also, why layout-land and not layout-landscape? I guess it's too late to change this now but the rest of the Android/ Java APIs eschew abbreviations. * Are there any tools that can help