strings.xml Managementtool

Question

I am looking for a tool to manage my strings.xml to localize String. The tool should show which string are missing in which translation. The tool has to be free for commercial use. Is there something I could use?

My searches for a tool like that only showed up http://developer.motorola.com/docstools/motodevstudio/download/ But this seems to be not free for commercial use if i understood it right.

Answer 1

Lint is a tool included with the Android SDK (and is therefore free for all use, commercial or otherwise) and gives you a list of missing translations. It can be run in Eclipse, from the command line, and can generate HTML reports.

For, example, from the command line in your project's root directory:

lint --check MissingTranslation .

produces a list of all strings from any .xml file that is missing from one of the supported languages (denoted by at least one folder with a language suffix).

Answer 2

You can try XML Diff from Microsoft. I'm not sure if you are allowed to use it commercially though (it doesn't say that you can't on the website).

Answer 3

well.. I would do something like that - say values/strings.xml is your master file which has it all. then just run through it and compare to it the rest of the files....

cd res

find . -name strings.xml -exec diff -u values\\/strings.xml {} \\;

--- values/strings.xml  2013-04-30 00:42:46.000000000 -0400
+++ ./values-es/strings.xml 2013-04-30 00:42:03.000000000 -0400
@@ -1,6 +1,4 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
 <resources>
-    <string name="app_name">frosty</string>
-    <string name="foo">Android</string>
-    <string name="bar">Android</string>
-</resources>
+    <string name="app_name">Brabble-Android</string>
+</resources>
\ No newline at end of file
--- values/strings.xml  2013-04-30 00:42:46.000000000 -0400
+++ ./values-fr/strings.xml 2013-04-30 00:49:16.000000000 -0400
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
 <resources>
     <string name="app_name">frosty</string>
-    <string name="foo">Android</string>
-    <string name="bar">Android</string>
+    <string name="foo">bar</string>
 </resources>

that should be a part of it at least.

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hope it helps abit.

Answer 4

You could use the web service Crowdin . It will show which strings are left to translate, for which languages, with percentages.