TRANSLATING.md

Translating BaldPhone to other languages

Auto generated multilingual screenshots

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If you encounter any problem when translating, please contact me via [email protected]

New, Better Translations System - Transifex

But if you have any problems with it, the old method will work just as fine

Old Translations System - Manual

Fixing\changing existing translations

1. Go to your desired language file:
   • Brazilian Portuguese translated by Kellyson Antunes Ivaylo Dimitrov
   • Chinese translated by thomassth
   • Bulgarian translated by Ivaylo Dimitrov
   • Czech translated by Tadeáš Horák
   • Danish (not finished yet) translated by "a happy user"
   • Dutch translated by Floor van den Heuvel
   • English
   • French translated by Primokorn
   • German translated by Caibot
   • Greek translated by Zafeiris Ganas
   • Hebrew
   • Indonesian translated by Sahri Riza Umami
   • Italian translated by Dario Mastromattei
   • Korean translated by SIMSEUNGMIN
   • Polish translated by Qik
   • Portuguese translated by Vladyslav Rudakevych
   • Romanian translated by Tibz Leet
   • Russian translated by Vintic
   • Slovenian translated by Klemen Skerbiš
   • Spanish translated by Victor Arribas and Ismael Ferreras Morezuelas (Swyter)
   • Swedish translated by Patrik Bogren
   • Turkish (not finished yet) translated by Samii571
2. Click "edit this file"
3. find the word you want to change
4. change it
5. propose file change

Adding a new language to BaldPhone

Option 1

1. Go to an existing language file:
   • Brazilian Portuguese translated by Kellyson Antunes
   • Chinese translated by thomassth
   • Bulgarian translated by Ivaylo Dimitrov
   • Czech translated by Tadeáš Horák
   • Danish (not finished yet) translated by "a happy user"
   • Dutch translated by Floor van den Heuvel
   • English
   • French translated by Primokorn
   • German translated by Caibot
   • Greek translated by Zafeiris Ganas
   • Hebrew
   • Indonesian translated by Sahri Riza Umami
   • Italian translated by Dario Mastromattei
   • Korean translated by SIMSEUNGMIN
   • Polish translated by Qik
   • Portuguese translated by Vladyslav Rudakevych
   • Romanian translated by Tibz Leet
   • Russian translated by Vintic
   • Slovenian translated by Klemen Skerbiš
   • Spanish translated by Victor Arribas and Ismael Ferreras Morezuelas (Swyter)
   • Swedish translated by Patrik Bogren
   • Turkish (not finished yet) translated by Samii571
2. Click "Raw" and copy the text to your text editor (Notepad++ is great for this specific task)
3. Change all the Values* to the new language (long texts like abouts can remain in english)
4. Please make sure all the words are correct, obviously I can't check it :)
5. Send me the file, and your name
6. The new language together with credit will be added in the next release
7. When the next release is published, please make sure the translations match

Option 2 - For git savvys

1. Fork the project
2. Create a branch in your forked project called adding_(RFC language code)_translations
3. Copy file X to new folder apps/src/main/res/values-(RFC language code)
4. Add your language + credit to you to the list of languages in file translating/TRANSLATING.md
5. Commit changes to your own branch
6. Create a pull request in the original project