Internationalization & Localization

i18n and l10n

Who am I?

• Android dev for ~5 years
• 2 i18n's under my belt
• Rudimentary knowledge of German

Survey

• Worked on an android app?
• Written a 2nd strings.xml file
• i18n is a conversation, not a recipe

Some things don't go in strings.xml

• api values
• format strings
• order strings
• How?

Api stuff

User Facing: always translate

Application keys: never translate

Beware the default locale

• Device  language sets the locale
• Specify the locale you expect
• AS complains about this better than Eclipse did
• specify the locale...