Android glossary? Thread poster: Jaroslaw Michalak
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Jaroslaw Michalak 
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Is there a multilanguage UI glossary for the Android system available? I am interested in English-Polish pair...
It should be, as the system is open source, but I cannot find anything.
| | | | esperantisto
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Since Android is a Linux derivative, you can use any Linux-related glossary. Most extensive seem to be KDE glossaries, thus, contact the Polish localization group of KDE. Or the Gnome one.
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You should probably search for "localization packs", "language packs" or "UI strings" or something like that. I'm not sure who localizes android: Google, the device manufacturers or the carriers who are based in the target country and end up selling most devices.
Whoever does it, I wouldn't expect them to publish a glossary... but there's a decent chance that you can find the UI text strings online somewhere in some variety of XML, which, supposing you can find the same version in English ... See more You should probably search for "localization packs", "language packs" or "UI strings" or something like that. I'm not sure who localizes android: Google, the device manufacturers or the carriers who are based in the target country and end up selling most devices.
Whoever does it, I wouldn't expect them to publish a glossary... but there's a decent chance that you can find the UI text strings online somewhere in some variety of XML, which, supposing you can find the same version in English and Polish, should be fairly easy to align.
Here's a link with mixed news (no full language packs, but you can dig things up in bits and pieces):
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4678169/how-to-create-a-custom-language-pack-for-android
Unfortunately there is no such notion as "language packs." You can download the Android source (see http://source.android.com) and add/modify translations but you will have to submit your changes as an Open Source contribution to the Android Open Source Project.
The translations are done per application. For instance, all the translations for the Browser app are in packages/apps/Browser/res/values-LANGUAGECODE. The framework translations are in frameworks/core/res/res/values-LANGUAGECODE.
I have no time to look into this now, but if the source code tree contains both EN and PL, it should be possible to just download the whole thing and then filter out all PL and all EN files with two simple searches and then align them in one go. ▲ Collapse
| | | | Samuel Murray
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| Linux or Java? | Mar 4, 2011 |
esperantisto wrote:
Since Android is a Linux derivative...
I thought Android is Java derivative.
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Samuel Murray wrote: esperantisto wrote:
Since Android is a Linux derivative... I thought Android is Java derivative.
Like any Linux-based system, Linux itself is only the kernel. Java would be an additional layer on top of the kernel.
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Samuel Murray wrote:
I thought Android is Java derivative.
Not really. Ambrose Li is right, it's based on the linux kernel. I believe most stuff above kernel level (i.e. most of what one would call the android OS itself) was coded by Google specifically for Android.
Java comes into the picture because the apps you can get through the Market run in the Dalvik virtual machine, which is a Java derivative. So Android itself is (loosely) linux-based, and it contains Java-derived parts (for running third party apps).
| | | | Jaroslaw Michalak
Poland
Local time: 08:07
Member (2004)
English to Polish
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Yes, the kernel is Linux and applications are mostly in Java.
Android is completely different in terms of interface, resources, etc. than typical Linux distributions, so localizations for those would be rather useless.
I know, of course, about the source code - I hoped I could access the strings without browsing through the whole package (which has several gigabytes of volume, available through git).
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I don’t know if this is going to help, but, as a shot into the dark, maybe you could try the following google query:
"strings.xml" +pl site:android.git.kernel.org
This gives you a list of directories in the Android GIT repo where the "strings.xml" file appears and where there’s a high chance one of those "strings.xml" files is a Polish localization.
[Edited at 2011-03-04 22:17 GMT]
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Jabberwock wrote:
I know, of course, about the source code - I hoped I could access the strings without browsing through the whole package (which has several gigabytes of volume, available through git).
Well, if it can be downloaded as a single package and there is a standard naming convention for interface string files, then you won't have to browse manually. Both Total Commander and the Windows search tool can find files called *interface*PL.xml and copy them all to a separate folder en masse. It's annoying to have to download all the source code for this, but it could well be the only way to do it.
[Edited at 2011-03-05 14:42 GMT]
| | | | Jaroslaw Michalak
Poland
Local time: 08:07
Member (2004)
English to Polish
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Ambrose Li wrote:
I don’t know if this is going to help, but, as a shot into the dark, maybe you could try the following google query:
"strings.xml" +pl site:android.git.kernel.org
I did not realize you can google git like that! For more specific searches, using "values-pl/strings.xml" works quite well, too.
It turns out, though, that the localization information is spread over a number of files - as my needs for the time were somewhat limited (just a couple of settings entries I could not see on my phone), I've just used those. Creating a glossary from these might be useful yet, at some point.
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