omkar-tenkale / POEditor-Android-Translator

Script to translate android strings.xml to a csv so that it can be imported into POEditor and then translate the identical csv with the translations back into a strings.xml file

POEditor-Android-Translator

Script to translate android strings.xml to a csv so that it can be imported into POEditor and then translate the identical csv with the translations back into a strings.xml file

Problem I had

Below is a snippet from a strings.xml file

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
    <string name="name_dog">Dog</string>
    <string name="name_cat">Cat</string>
    <string name="name_prompt">What is your name?</string>
    <string name="age_prompt">Please enter your age.</string>
    <string-array name="rooms">
        <item>Bathroom</item>
        <item>Kitchen</item>
    </string-array>
</resources>

Now importing this into POEditor yields the following

Which is probably not what you want to translate

Solution I made

Execute the translate script with the translate option

python translate.py -o translate

and then enter the file name when prompted

File name(Or absolute path to file):
strings.xml

and two csv files should now be present in the directory one to be imported into POEditor which is the values.csv and the other to be used to rebuild the strings xml with the translation - names.csv

Now let's import the values.csv into POEditor

We get the actually values and note POEditor does not support the string array tags but we still got those imported as well so that should be a plus!

Rebuilding the Strings XML file

Let's do that!

I used POEditor's awesome automatic translation feature and translated the terms and got this

Now let's export this as a csv, the exported data looks like this

Dog,Perro
Cat,Gato
"What is your name?","¿Cuál es su nombre?"
"Please enter your age.","Por favor, introduzca su edad."
Bathroom,Baño
Kitchen,Cocina

Now we build back our strings.xml with the following command

python translate.py -o build

and enter the file names when prompted

File name for csv containing string names(Or absolute path to file):
names.csv
File name for csv containing translation(Or absolute path to file):
translation.csv
Resulting strings stored in output.xml

and voila we have the result in the output.xml file that looks like

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
	<string name="name_dog">Perro</string>
	<string name="name_cat">Gato</string>
	<string name="name_prompt">"¿Cuál es su nombre?"</string>
	<string name="age_prompt">"Por favor, introduzca su edad."</string>
	<string-array name="rooms">
		<item>Baño</item>
		<item>Cocina</item></string-array>
</resources>

As you see the string array isn't perfect lol but it's correct

Hope this helps someone else

Feel free to open issues if you come across any and I'll try and address

All suitable contributions welcome

Contributing

I opened a couple issues for these feel free to tackle them

• Need to be able to handle plurals
• Formatting for the last tag of the string array
• More test cases