I have an app that support both Chinese and English, and when my phone is configured to Chinese or English, things display quite normally, but when my phone is in French(by default the interface would be in English), everything is in English EXCEPT the UIActivityViewController is in Chinese that will pop up once user click a "share" button in my app.
I do not know how to modify this, any helps will be appreciated.
Note: my app uses a Localize-Swift library which allows user to choose a desired language from the settings within the app which means the app language could be different from the system language, if user chooses one from the app then switch to another system lang. Also, English IS set to be the development language in Xcode and Base Localization is NOT used.
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I am working on app, and customers want it to be fully localized. We have several Localizable.strings and InfoPlist.strings files for each supported language.
There is an opportunity in the app to change app's language "on fly".
(This is done by associating another bundle with chosen language)to main bundle. So when app calls [NSBundle.mainBundle localizedStringForKey:value:table:], it actually refer to bundle with language user has selected.)
Here comes bad consequences. System permission alerts (requests for location usage, camera usage, etc.) are not localized with language selected within the app, but localized with preferred language from iOS Settings.
So, for example, if user has English as preferred language in Settings, but in our app he chose French, the whole app will be in French except system alerts, which will be in English.
Is there any way to fix it? I mean, to choose programmatically which language system alert must consider as preferred?
Apple Rejection Reason: Your app's modal alerts are in English, but your app's primary language is French. To help users understand why your app is requesting access to a specific feature, your app's modal alerts should be in the same language as the rest of your app.
Apple didn't accept my application in the AppStore because the main language of my app is Spanish, but the modals that request permissions if the device is in English shows it in this language
They tell me that all my application must be in Spanish regardless of the language of the device.
I have already changed the development language to Spanish and it is still coming out in English. I have tried many ways, but not one has worked for me.
Development language
My app
I have set up 2 languages in my app:
English (development language)
Italian
I am expecting that in case the device is set to a language different than Italian, the app would come up in English.
However I noticed an inconsistency, between simulator and device:
If I set the simulator to Spanish, the app comes up in English
If I set the device to Spanish, the app comes up in Italian
how can I make sure the app comes up in English when the device language is set to Spanish?
I believe this inconsistency is due to the preferred language order in Setting App -> General -> Language & Region. Your iPhone device is likely to have ordered Italian with higher preference.
As stated in Apple's documentation (https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/qa/qa1828/_index.html)
To determine the language for your app, iOS considers not only the order of the user language preferences (in General > Language & Region of the Settings application) but also the localizations your app declares it supports. Here is the detailed process:
iOS first looks up your user's most preferred language, which is the first entry in their language preferences.
It proceeds to check if that language is supported by your app. iOS searches your app bundle for an .lproj folder matching the preferred language. If the folder exists, iOS infers that your app has been localized for that language and chooses it for your app. Otherwise, iOS selects the next language in the user language preferences, then repeats the above check.
The dialect support in iOS may slightly change the above behavior. If your user's preferred language is a regional variant that is not supported by your app, iOS will try to fall back to a more generic language before giving up. For example, if your user's preferred language is British English and your app bundle doesn't contain an en-GB.lproj or en_GB.lproj folder, iOS then searches your bundle for an en.lproj folder and chooses English for your app if the folder exists.
If none of the user’s preferred languages are supported by your app, iOS chooses the language matching your app's development region (CFBundleDevelopmentRegion).
In Summary,
a. For user who knows both Italian and English, it will display in their
preference.
b. If they only know one of the two, it will display the correct one.
c. If they don't know both, you should set CFBundleDevelopmentRegion in your info.plist to select English.
I am trying to localize my iOS app. However, I do not have translations for all the languages supported by Apple. I have translations for French and Dutch, with English as the base language. I wanted to know the common behavior in the following scenario.
Suppose I set the iPhone language to French and then navigate to the app. I am able to correctly see all the translations.
Now, I set the iPhone language to Portuguese. Now when I navigate to the app and I see the translations are still in French and not in English (the base language of my app).
Is this behavior right? Shouldn't the language be set to English?
The language fallback is in the Settings app. It defaults to languages the user has set the phone to in the past -- they can change it in iOS 9.
My app supports 7 language. when the user selects from the choice i will restart the app so that app changes to the selected language. But i need the app settings such as settings bundle to be updates as per the app language.I can able to localise the settings based on device language but not on selected app language.
The answer might be a hard NO for it. Inter-App communication doesn't let you localize the native apps.
App is localized to spanish but device is set to english then
If your app is showcasing address then book english is shown.
If the app is using camera then english is shown (unlesss you create
custom camera interface)
If app is triggering social framework like Facebook,twitter etc they
also shown in english.
Here in your case the Settings screen can be localized just in the same way that info plist localizes, but screen will localized only when the device is set to that language. http://useyourloaf.com/blog/localizing-iphone-app-settings-strings/