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French translation
Would it take long to implement a language switch button in the settings?
I'm happy to take the string.xml and translate everything to French if that helps. Doesn't seem to be all that much.
The app currently uses the device language, but shouldn't be hard to allow users to select the language under settings. @shobhitagarwal1612 wdyt?
Translating sounds good, we should also tidy up the file a bit to make it easier to translate:
- [ ] Clean up unused strings in strings.xml
- [ ] Add comments describing where each string is used
- [ ] Do actual translations
Yes, we can add a setting to switch the language of the app. However, that won't change the language of the questions in the data collection screen since they are populated from firestore.
Yes, we can add a setting to switch the language of the app. However, that won't change the language of the questions in the data collection screen since they are populated from firestore.
Do you mean the questions that the survey organizer creates?
Do you mean the questions that the survey organizer creates?
Yes
That's alright. I'm just talking about translating the GUI here. We'll have a training in Togo soon and having the GUI in French would make things a lot easier. The individual survey questions would then also be made in French by the participants. I'm halfway through translating the strings.xml. Can I just send it to you later or what's the best way to go about this?
Please feel free to raise a PR.
I created a new folder "values-fr" under "ground/src/main/res/" containing the translated strings.xml in my fork. The CI workflow run outputs that 'All jobs have failed'.
The errors all look like this:
/home/runner/work/ground-android/ground-android/ground/src/main/res/values-fr/strings.xml:63:2: string/admin_request_access does not contain a valid string resource. /home/runner/work/ground-android/ground-android/ground/src/main/res/values-fr/strings.xml:62:2: Failed to flatten XML for resource 'agree_checkbox' with error: Invalid unicode escape sequence in string "{str}"
When uploading the original strings.xml in the same directory it passes.
Should I do a Pull Request nonetheless?
Here's the translated strings.xml: strings.zip
More interest has been raised for a French translation plus also a Spanish one. Can you implement the French strings.xml already @shobhitagarwal1612?
Sure. I'll use the strings.xml from https://github.com/google/ground-android/issues/2676#issuecomment-2312093838
For the fun of it I just started a pull request with the file in a new subfolder values-fr, since there is also values-es and values-pt. The French strings.xml is in it. Up to you if you want to merge or upload. Since there is also the Spanish and Portuguese version, can these languages also been made available for the user's choice?
French translations have been added (https://github.com/google/ground-android/pull/2770) and should automatically be displayed to users with French language system locale in the next update. Closing this one and making a separate Feature request for a language switch button.