Issue with Crowdin SDK

[g123k]

Hi everyone,

In the app, for the Nutri-score Guide, we use the Crowdin SDK to be able to fetch the latest translations.
We initially used this mechanism to speed up the deployment (and be able to fix potential erros).

However, there is a major issue with the Flutter SDK: it never updates the translation (yes, yes! The main feature of the SDK!).
After digging a little bit, they don't use their API correctly.
Instead of https://distributions.crowdin.net/{distribution_hash}/content/{path_to_file}?timestamp={timestamp_from_manifest}, they use https://distributions.crowdin.net/{distribution_hash}/content/{path_to_file} (= the timestamp query is missing).

Also, we were forced to fork their repo, because of uni_links (incompatible with our Deep links mechanism).
The good news however, is that the latest version of the SDK fixes this.

So now, we have multiple choices:

• Re-sync the fork and patch the API url
• Create a PR on the official repo, but without any guarantee it will be accepted/ready on time
• Ditch the dependency and manually call the API in the app
• Hard-code all translations in the current mechanism (but it means losing the auto-update feature)

Also, please bear in mind, that the content is still not validated (and we don't know if it will even be…).

[monsieurtanuki]

I'm not familiar with Crowdin or uni_links, but AFAIU I would suggest 2 options in parallel:

• Re-sync the fork and patch the API url
• Create a PR on the official repo

[g123k]

Finally, there is a new plan: the event scheduled next week is postponed.
The content is also validated.

So I will migrate everything in the app translations.