Re: [android-developers] Who translates google play apps?

2015-12-15 Thread Vladimir Markiev
Well there is quite a big quantity of general words like "settings" which is pretty clear though there are abbreviations that present a challenge. But if the app's purpose is clear translation can be done quite easily. On Monday, December 14, 2015 at 4:14:23 AM UTC+3, Quentin Christensen wrote:

Re: [android-developers] Who translates google play apps?

2015-12-13 Thread Vladimir Markiev
I won't say thet Russian is more popular than English (is there any more popular language than English at all, except for perhaps Chinese?), especially when piracy is more wide-spread here, but I probably could translate although never had experience translating xml's. We really can build a

Re: [android-developers] Who translates google play apps?

2015-12-13 Thread Vladimir Markiev
Well, the price is quite fair (though it could be a bit higher). Of course translation can not and should not be done through google translator. I remember all those awfully translated games from my childhood when mine (in a mountain) was translated as "moy" (mine as belonging to me). And

Re: [android-developers] Who translates google play apps?

2015-12-13 Thread Quentin Christensen
The way I've done my text, which I believe is the correct way but I could be wrong, is that I've created an XML file - essentially it's like a html file and I've got everything in there as in the below text, so essentially the translation just needs to be the words in between the tags, so for

Re: [android-developers] Who translates google play apps?

2015-12-12 Thread Mark Phillips
I was curious about the cost of translation as well, so I googled it. I found this site ( http://www.icanlocalize.com/site/services/android-localization/) and their prices - 0.09 USD / word for expert translation or 0.135 USD / word including review of the app’s texts and description on the

Re: [android-developers] Who translates google play apps?

2015-12-12 Thread Quentin Christensen
The trick is probably the getting paid part. I would love to have my app translated into as many languages as possible and if you are interested in translating my app I can send you the strings.xml file right now! But having sold less than 100 copies at $2.99 AUD (minus Google's cut), of an

[android-developers] Who translates google play apps?

2015-12-11 Thread Vladimir Markiev
So Google Play has a huge amount of different apps and games and often I see people waiting for localization of certain app or game because they don't speak English. This makes me wondering - who doe the localization? Search gives only tips for those who want to translate their app, but not