# Crowdsourcing

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" />

Crowdsourcing is not just a long funny word, it is also localization trend. Did you manage to try it yet? Most of Crowdin customers did, and after observing thousands of successfully localized projects we realized that it would be great to analyze some accumulated experience on how to motivate volunteers and share it with our precious readers. Here are some ideas we came up with in getting all this tricky motivation organization without a lot of efforts and money wasting.