Need translators for app localization

[ashutoshgngwr]

Please help in translating Noice to your local language.

Note: Even if translations for your local language exist in Noice, it is a good idea to revisit them. The project is always under development and translations are lagging behind. If you have Android Studio environment setup on your local machine, clone the repository and take a look at values/strings.xml. Android Lint will highlight missing translations.

Steps to translate

• Creating a new strings.xml file for translations
  1. Open the new file wizard under File > New > Android resource file in the Android Studio
  2. From Available qualifiers add Locale to Chosen qualifiers
  3. Select the correct language and region and create the new strings.xml file.
• Translate all the translatable strings in values/strings.xml
• [Bonus] Translate the F-Droid/Play Store metadata. See docs.
• Create a new Pull Request
• [Optional] Add your name to the Credits section in AboutFragment. See example.

Also, see CONTRIBUTING.md.

Speeding up the process

You can use Google translate to quickly come up with rough translations of all the strings. But since additional context is needed to translate English to most languages properly, you should edit these rough translations by hand until it conveys same message as its English counterpart.

[Enchufadoo]

Hi, would like to translate to spanish (Latin america) if you want.

[ashutoshgngwr]

@Enchufadoo Please go ahead! Thanks for your contribution. :)

[yamaks2306]

Hey! If you don't mind, I'd like to help with the Russian translation.

[ashutoshgngwr]

@yamaks2306 please go ahead. Thank you for the contributions.

[chagretes]

I would like to contribute with the Brazilian Portuguese (pt-br) translation

[ashutoshgngwr]

@chagretes Please go ahead. Thank you for the contribution.

[CebolaBros64]

I would like to contribute with the Brazilian Portuguese (pt-br) translation

@chagretes How far ahead are you on your translation? I have a brazillian portuguese translation in progress as well

[ashutoshgngwr]

I would like to contribute with the Brazilian Portuguese (pt-br) translation

@chagretes How far ahead are you on your translation? I have a brazillian portuguese translation in progress as well

@CebolaBros64 I was starting to think that maintaining this issue is a waste of time. 😅

[chagretes]

I would like to contribute with the Brazilian Portuguese (pt-br) translation

@chagretes How far ahead are you on your translation? I have a brazillian portuguese translation in progress as well

I still need to translate the metadata + screenshots.

Edit: I saw here that you are ahead already! (CebolaBros64@f6a1a1c)

You can then proceed, anything I help with a review

[CebolaBros64]

Sure thing, then! I'll be making a pull request soon enough

[julianrrr]

Hi, I would like translate the app to spanish (es-ES)... As soon as possible I will create the PR

[ashutoshgngwr]

@julianrrr Can you please translate from 0.7.x branch? There are some strings related changes that aren't in the master yet.

[julianrrr]

@julianrrr Can you please translate from 0.7.x branch? There are some strings related changes that aren't in the master yet.

Sure, no problem.

[patogit]

Maybe translatewiki.net would be useful?

[swedneck]

Perhaps it would be possible to use https://weblate.org to make translating easier?

[ashutoshgngwr]

@patogit @swedneck Created a GitHub action to keep track of missing translations. Will integrate it soon. (:

Also looking to do something about the outdated translations, not sure.

[patogit]

https://translatewiki.net takes care of all that sort of translation handling, finding outdated bits, exposes the project to a large community of translators, and costs nothing (donations surely appreciated). But sometimes solving problems in a new way is more fun :) and maybe you'll create new tools along the way.

[ashutoshgngwr]

@patogit You got that right! 😅. The other thing is I want to minimize my context switch from GitHub.

[ashutoshgngwr]

Closing this in favor of #200.