Resources Translator

Script to translate Android project localizable resources files using google translate API.

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes. See deployment for notes on how to deploy the project on a live system.

Prerequisites

Python 2.7+ Python 3.2+ (Recommended)

####Dependencies Installation (MacOS) Python 2.7 comes shipped with the OS.

To install Python3 I recommend use Homebrew package manager

The script will explain what changes it will make and prompt you before the installation begins.

$ ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

Edit your ~/.profile to include (if it is not already there)

export PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:$PATH

To install Python 3:

$ brew install python3

#####Working with Python 3 At this point, you have the system Python 2.7 available, potentially the Homebrew version of Python 2 installed, and the Homebrew version of Python 3 as well.

$ python

will launch the Python 2 interpreter.

$ python3

will launch the Python 3 interpreter

Installing

To download, install and run the project follow the instructions:

git clone https://github.com/computationalcore/auto-translate-resources
cd auto-translate-resources
python3 setup.py install

Python the setup install will install all python dependences. And repeat

$ python3 translate.py -h

positional arguments:
  path                  The base path
  string_list           String of the base string.xml to be translated. Comma
                        separated list eg,
                        app_name,dialog_positive,loading_msg

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -v, --verbose
  -i IGNORED_LANGUAGES_LIST, --ignored_languages_list IGNORED_LANGUAGES_LIST
                        String containing the language which files should be
                        ignored on at translation. Comma separated list. eg.

path - The absolute or relative dir of the resource folder of your android project string_list - List of the string of comma separated resource names you want to automatically translate to other languages -i - a comma separated list of languages locales to be ignored. The locale use the same notation explainded here https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/resources/providing-resources.html

If is necessary to necessary to register at https://cloud.google.com/translate/ to get your API key.

To include your API key into the project just copy or rename the file project.settings.example to project.settings

$ cp project.settings.example project.settings

The open the project.settings with your favorite text editor and replace YOUR_GOOGLE_TRANSLATE_API_KEY_HERE with your Google Translate API

#CREDENTIALS (Currently only Google Translate API is supported)

#Text-to-speech service credentials
[translate]
api_key = YOUR_GOOGLE_TRANSLATE_API_KEY_HERE

After it you can run

$ python3 translate.py PATH_TO_RESOURCE STRING_LIST 

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details

Limitations

• This works only with Android string resource schemes
• Currently it doesn't support translate all the strings (it needs the list
• Maybe I will extend functionality and support iOS localizable strings and other frameworks.