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4 <title>Stringlate</title>
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12 <h1>Stringlate</h1>
13 <p><em>Help translating FOSS applications.</em></p>
14
15 <h2>Deprecation Notice</h2>
16 <p>I, Lonami, have lost most interest in maintaining Stringlate.</p>
17
18 <p><strong>There are a few big issues with a big impact and I don't want
19 them to cause more harm than good</strong>, so I'm making it clear that
20 I am aware of the issues and that you should know about them too if you
21 still decide to make use the application.</p>
22
23 <p>Stringlate started as an idea to suit my personal needs. My mum wanted
24 an application but it was only available in English, so I decided to
25 translate it myself. However, doing so proved very inconvenient, and I
26 decided to make my own Android application to help me in the process. In
27 the end though, I made the translation by hand far sooner, before the
28 application was ready :)</p>
29
30 <p>It was a fun project, and I learnt a lot, but any issues in the
31 application have serious implications, since they impact a lot of open
32 source projects. There are several big issues:</p>
33
34 <ul>
35 <li>Making a pull request may use old state of the repository</li>
36 <li>Some tags like bool and string arrays aren't handled well</li>
37 <li>Some projects only accept changes through other platforms</li>
38 <li>Integration with other services could really be improved</li>
39 </ul>
40
41 <p><strong>In short</strong>, please consider other ways to help
42 translating the project you like instead of using Stringlate.</p>
43
44 <p>If you're interested in <strong>maintaining Stringlate</strong>,
45 please <a href="https://lonami.dev/contact">contact me</a> and
46 we can discuss it further. Thank you for your interest, and thanks to
47 everyone who has contributed translations. It's been a nice journey!</p>
48
49 <p><em>(The rest of the page remains the same for historical
50 purposes.)</em></p>
51
52 <h1>About Stringlate</h1>
53
54 <p>
55 This application is meant to help the FOSS community translate their
56 Android applications in an easy way. Any free moment you have could
57 be invested into translating that application you love, but is not
58 available in your language, or has some strings wrong.
59 </p>
60
61 <p>
62 The application works by fetching a <code>git</code> repository (yes, any!)
63 to retrieve all the available strings, for you to translate whenever
64 you want, offline. Once you're done, submit your work!
65 </p>
66
67 <p>
68 This application is of course open source, and is available on both
69 <a href="https://github.com/LonamiWebs/Stringlate">GitHub</a> and
70 <a href="https://f-droid.org/app/io.github.lonamiwebs.stringlate">F-Droid</a>.
71 </p>
72
73 <h1>Integrating with your own app</h1>
74 <p>
75 Are you a developer? Are you interested on people knowing that they
76 can use Stringlate to translate your application? If both answers are
77 yes, that's awesome!
78 </p>
79
80 <p>
81 There are several ways to do this, one is from in-app, for which
82 you can check and use this plain simple
83 <a href="https://github.com/LonamiWebs/Stringlate/blob/master/src/app/src/main/java/io/github/lonamiwebs/stringlate/utilities/StringlateApi.java">API</a>
84 <sup>(<a href="https://github.com/LonamiWebs/Stringlate/issues/72">original issue</a>)</sup>.
85 </p>
86
87 <p>
88 Another way is by creating a <a href="http://shields.io/">badge</a>
89 <sup>(<a href="https://github.com/gsantner/memetastic">original idea</a>)</sup>
90 for Stringlate:
91 </p>
92
93 <img
94 src="https://img.shields.io/badge/translate%20with-stringlate-green.svg"
95 alt="translate with stringlate badge" />
96 <pre><a href="https://lonami.dev/stringlate/translate?git={git url}">
97 <img
98 src="https://img.shields.io/badge/translate%20with-stringlate-green.svg"
99 alt="Translate - with Stringlate" />
100</a>
101
102<!-- or using markdown -->
103[](https://lonami.dev/stringlate/translate?git={git url})</pre>
104
105 <p>
106 You should replace <code>{git url}</code> to wherever your project's
107 <code>git</code> lives. It should be encoded to be a valid parameter
108 though.
109 </p>
110
111 <noscript><p>
112 You can also enable JavaScript to simply generate the badge link
113 right from this page!
114 </p></noscript>
115
116 <div id="generateUrlDiv" style="display:none">
117 <p>You can also enter said URL here and get the code straight away:</p>
118
119 <label for="gitUrl">Project's <code>git</code> URL:</label>
120 <input type="text" id="gitUrl" oninput="updateBadgeCode()">
121 <select id="genKind" onchange="updateBadgeCode()">
122 <option value="html">HTML</option>
123 <option value="md">Markdown</option>
124 </select>
125
126 <p>Generated code (copy and paste this on your <code>README</code>):</p>
127 <textarea id="generatedCode" readonly></textarea><br>
128 <button id="copyButton" onclick="copyGenerated()">Copy text</button>
129 </div>
130 <noscript>If you want <p>
131 If you had JavaScript enabled, I could tell you which repository you
132 were trying to translate. But it's fine!
133 </p></noscript>
134 <p id="whichAppP" style="display:none">
135 You were probably trying to translate <a id="whichAppA"></a>.
136 </p>
137 </main>
138
139 <script>
140 var generateUrlDiv = document.getElementById('generateUrlDiv');
141 generateUrlDiv.style.display = '';
142
143 var gitUrl = document.getElementById('gitUrl');
144 var genKind = document.getElementById('genKind');
145 var generatedCode = document.getElementById('generatedCode');
146 var copyButton = document.getElementById('copyButton');
147
148 function updateBadgeCode() {
149 var translateUrl =
150 'https://lonami.dev/stringlate/translate?git='+
151 encodeURIComponent(gitUrl.value);
152
153 var badgeUrl =
154 'https://img.shields.io/badge/translate%20with-stringlate-green.svg';
155
156 switch (genKind.value) {
157 case 'html':
158 generatedCode.rows = 5;
159 generatedCode.value =
160 '<a href="'+translateUrl+
161 '>\n <img\n src="'+badgeUrl+
162 '"\n alt="Translate - with Stringlate" />\n</a>';
163 break;
164 case 'md':
165 generatedCode.rows = 2;
166 generatedCode.value =
167 '[]('+translateUrl+')';
169 break;
170 }
171 }
172
173 function copyGenerated() {
174 generatedCode.select();
175 try {
176 var ok = document.execCommand('copy');
177 if (ok) copyButton.innerHTML = 'Copied!';
178 else copyButton.innerHTML = 'Unable to copy!';
179 } catch (err) {
180 answer.innerHTML = 'Unsupported browser!';
181 }
182
183 setTimeout(function(){ copyButton.innerHTML = 'Copy text'; }, 2000);
184 }
185 </script>
186 </body>
187</html>