How to I convert all the android text xml into iOS strings? about serge

[iafan]

I'm in IRC (nickname: iafan) during most of the day (I'm in PDT /GMT-7/ time zone). Feel free to ping me whenever you see me online.

Serge is not a tool to convert between different file formats. iOS and Android apps are usually pretty different, so there's no 100% match in strings. For example, strings with placeholders would be different for iOS and Android, unless you use some custom cross-platform format for placeholders.

Though one can technically write a plugin that would do the conversion at the time you run serge localize, I'd suggest doing such format conversion outside the Serge localization workflow. It can be a script that takes one android XML file and generates one corresponding .strings file at the specified path. You can take Serge's Android XML parser code as a base for this script.

Once you have the .strings file generated from your XML files, you can localize them with Serge the way I showed before — Serge will reuse translations there just fine.

[buptfarmer]

We have little common day time. (I'm in GMT+8/ time zone)
I found that parse_android plugin parse into "key:item", but ios project use array this way : key[0], key[1], key[2] , how could ios key[0] format reuse the android translation with "key:item" format?

android xml code

    <string-array name="day_of_week">
        <item>"Mon"</item>
        <item>"Tue"</item>
        <item>"Wed"</item>
        <item>"Thu"</item>
        <item>"Fri"</item>
        <item>"Sat"</item>
        <item>"Sun"</item>
    </string-array>

ios strings code

/*  */
"day_of_week[0]" = "Mon";

/*  */
"day_of_week[1]" = "Tue";

/*  */
"day_of_week[2]" = "Wed";

/*  */
"day_of_week[3]" = "Thu";

/*  */
"day_of_week[4]" = "Fri";

/*  */
"day_of_week[5]" = "Sat";

/*  */
"day_of_week[6]" = "Sun";

[iafan]

Mapping of Android<=>iOS keys is totally up to you (and your conversion script). Serge only uses keys as hints (comments that provide additional context to translators). Even if your keys differ, Serge will still reuse the translations.