Re: [android-developers] are text files in assets translated to the local language?

On Mon, May 07, 2012 at 12:25:54PM +0900, Nikolay Elenkov wrote:
> On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 12:06 PM, Jim Graham <spooky130u@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, May 07, 2012 at 11:39:38AM +0900, Nikolay Elenkov wrote:
> >
>
> >>
> >> Whether you'd want to use the result as in your app is another
> >> matter though.
> >
> > Well, I don't really know, so I'm open for advice on this one.[1] ?? So,
> > it seems I basically have two choices:
> >
> > ?? 1) go with the above machine translations (except for Russian, where
> > ?? ?? ??I already have an offer---thanks again, Kostya).
> >
> > ?? 2) just leave it English as, apparently, my previous apps have all
> > ?? ?? ??been
>
> You don't have to localize in your first release. You could release a
> first version, wait until you get some downloads and then check
> the developer console to see what countries your app is most popular in.
> Then decide on localizing to those languages. Generally, if the app
> is localized, that should get you even more downloads.

Great idea. :-) That makes sense.

Thanks,
--jim

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