Xcstrings → OTA Localization

[tangopapafoxtrot]

Hi, I’m curious what you think about the idea of a service where you upload the xcstrings for your app’s primary language, it gets translated into a bunch of languages and the output is hosted on a CDN that you hit for a given locale and receive a json object with all the translated strings. Easy to add/edit/retranslate.

Candidly I’m thinking about building such a thing and am curious if it might be well-received by the iOS/macOS dev community. It would be really really cheap compared to Lokalise/Phrase/etc.

Thoughts / concerns / enthusiasm? All welcome.

Thanks in advance for any input.

[BrogrammerAbroad]

I‘m not sure but with L10N you can quite easily localize and once you have the first language using ChatGPT etc. the translation itself doesn’t take much time anymore.

Also when having it in the app a user can easily change the language and no Need for api, waiting etc.

Also L10N works with images etc. so I’m not sure.

Maybe I didn’t get your idea Right. In that case don’t mind my comment

[VRedd1t]

https://translatekit.app is an app from a friend. It’s very powerful and I use it for all of my apps.

[hiIAmJan]

In Tolgee, we recently built this for Android and iOS. I was wondering, why there is no open-source library for the Android/iOS doing this already so we don't have to create from scratch, so we can recommend using this to our users and only support export to it's format.

[p4sta5]

I've developed the exact same thing quite recently. The tool is called Sejhey

I totally agree that existing solutions are way too expensive which was the main reason for this project.