Engineering

Now you can integrate your project in Crowdin with JIRA. This simplifies communication about mistakes in the source strings between translators and developers. Translators report mistake in the source string issues in Crowdin. Developers instantly know about them, because each becomes a sub-task in JIRA automatically. Once the mistakes are fixed and the strings in Crowdin are updated translators would be able to get down to making relevant translations. This way the localization process in your project would go faster.

Do you work in Android Studio? If your answer is yes, then we have some pretty exciting news to share. If your friends use it — make sure to tell them too. From now on you can download a Crowdin plugin and have the process of strings downloading and uploading much improved.

Wonderful news to welcome: up from now Crowdin is even more accessible to internationalization and localization! We implemented the best ICU syntax support on the market, considerably mature localization tool, which can advance high-quality translations for your projects. Just check it out! Since target texts get modified in terms of its gender and plural forms, number, time, and date, ICU Syntax provides better support for mentioned features to express all the necessary spelling and grammar details. Hence, it is a paramount element, which standardizes subtleties of the string although tends to perplex inexperienced translators. Therefore, string localization is more challenging than ever. Crowdin recognizes ICU formats and with a help of really handy Pre-view option makes it possible to observe different variations. Syntax is also highlighted so it is very convenient to keep required areas within the sight and manage translations swiftly! It let translators minimize mistakes, review defined message structure, and quality of the ultimate translation outcome.  We did our best to come up with ICU syntax support and are really happy to share this amazing thing with our users! Select, Plural, Number, Date and Time formats are on hand to test and smooth away any issue one could have before.

The new Version Control feature we introduce today can significantly reduce the delay “after development before deploy” that usually agile companies struggle with. Time saving is achieved by letting translators work in parallel to developers. Generally speaking, every string created or modified by developer becomes available to translator almost immediately. Even if there are several teams working on different improvements.

Get to know how to: - Сrowdsource translations for Android - Avoid potential pitfalls - Prepare your App for localization process - Choose localization technology - Find crowd translators - Motivate translators - …and more Crowdsourcing supposed to be a powerful method for Android localization. Except - how often does that happen? Developers choose crowdsourcing mainly because it sounds perfect to get translations for free. But the lack of awareness about all the crowdsourcing aspects leads to fail. This whitepaper will help you to be aware and avoid potential challenges. It will be your guide through crowdsourcing whys and hows for Android apps so you can be prepared for the ups and downs it may bring. This 14-pages whitepaper covers: - Crowdsourced localization overview - Steps toward applying crowdsourced translations in the Android app localization process <ActionBanner title="Whitepaper: Hows and Whys of Crowdsourced Translation for Android App Localization" buttonUrl="https://downloads.crowdin.com/docs/android-crowdsourcing.pdf" buttonText="Check Out" />

Crowdin gives wide range of possibilities to provide contextual information to translators. We allow to upload screenshots to show where the text segment is being used in real product, comment segments, create glossary to highlight and explain important terms, collaborate on choosing best translation and more. Today, after more than 6 months of active development, we release the public beta of our brand new In-Context localization tool for web applications called JIPT (Just In Place Translations).  JIPT allows translators to do their work right in the live application, immediately preview translation in original context thus produce best possible quality localization. All of the texts that are visible in browsers can be translated this way (including ones stored in the database).