How Git helps us with localization

Let's have a look on our localization process and how Git helped us to save some time.

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1. HOW GIT HELPS US WITH APPLICATION LOCALIZATION Dmytro Khmelenko Software Engineer @ Freeletics 1-2 December 2017
2. “APPLICATION LOCALIZATION IS EASY”© Me saying that some time in the past 2
4. WHAT WE HAVE • 18 millions registered users • 9 languages supported (2 of them were added recently) • 10 Android developers & 7 iOS developers • keep developing new features • release cycle every 2 weeks 4
5. STATISTIC - REGISTRATIONS 5
6. STATISTIC - PAYMENTS 6
7. STATISTIC - TRAININGS 7
8. THE PROBLEM How can we have all new features localized with a minimum amount of effort? 8
9. FEATURE REQUEST 9 Feature request Development Team
10. LOCALIZATION REQUEST 10 New strings Development Team Localization repository
11. LOCALIZATION REQUEST 11 mob_bw_buy_coach_title: Unlock Your Coach Now mob_bw_buy_coach_subtitle_1: Personal to You mob_bw_buy_coach_subtitle_2: Progressive Training and_bw_buy_coach_period_week: '%s / Week' ios_bw_buy_coach_period_week: '%@ / Week'
12. EXPORT TO TRANSLATORS 12 New strings Localization repository
13. TRANSIFEX Localization platform with continuous delivery flow and integration with many other services transifex.com 13
14. TRANSLATION 14 Translations Translators
15. INTEGRATE LOCALIZATION 15 values/ strings.xml PR strings.xml (all locales) Application repository Localization repository
16. MATCHING JOB 16 def match(language_code, strings_xml_keys, english_strings, input_yaml): translated_strings = input_yaml[language_code] for key in strings_xml_keys: if key in translated_strings: value = translated_strings[key] else: value = english_strings[key]
17. SO EASY AND IT’S WORKING 17
19. THE PROBLEM http://www.unicode.org/cldr/charts/29/supplemental/language_plural_rules.html Category Numbers English Polish One 1 1 month 1 miesiąc Few 2~4, 22~24, 32~34 … 2 months 2 miesiące Many 0, 5~19, 100 … 5 months 5 miesięcy Other 0.0~1.5, 10.0 … 1,5 months 1,5 miesiąca 19
20. AND SOLUTION 20 Android supports plurals
21. TRANSLATION 21 Translations Translators
22. PLURALS SUPPORT 22 strings.xml plurals.xml Translations matching Localization repository
23. HOW IT LOOKS LIKE 23 mob_bw_buy_coach_title: Unlock Your Coach Now mob_bw_buy_coach_purchase_month_plurals: one: '%d Month' other: '%d Months’
24. HOW IT LOOKS LIKE 24 <plurals name="mob_bw_buy_coach_purchase_month_plurals"> <item quantity="one">%d Miesiąc</item> <item quantity="few">%d Miesiące</item> <item quantity="many">%d Miesięcy</item> <item quantity="other">%d Miesiąca</item> </plurals>
25. CLEAN UP 25 Development Team Deletes unused strings for default locale Application repository
26. CLEAN UP 26 values/strings.xml values/plurals.xml Application repository Localization repository PR strings.xml (all locales)
27. SIMPLICITY 27 New strings Development Team Localization repository Translated strings Application repository
28. SUMMARY 28 • Continuous localization process • Automated • Simplicity • Less error-prone
29. QUESTIONS? github.com/dkhmelenko twitter.com/dkhmelenko