Ask HN: Would you localize your app? Why? Have you done it already?

2 pointsby rahimnathwanivor 12 Jahren3 comments

There have been some discussions on HN recently about how to localize an app. The comments have focused on (i) how to translate the strings in an app, (ii) how to optimise the title/description/keywords in the app store, (iii) why translation isn't enough.

If you have localized your app already:

- How did you decide it was worth doing?

- Apart from translating strings (in the app and on the store), what else did you do, to try to make your app successful in other languages/countries?

If you haven't localized your app:

- Why not?

- What could make you change your mind?

1 comments

badbathvor 12 Jahren

I did for android app. we simply looked at number of installations by country and we had a lot of people asking for their language to be supported. we used google services to do the localization. for us, main thing was simply making all labels, etc make sense for native speakers of the two other languages (beside english) that we added

rahimnathwanivor 12 Jahren

Thanks. Does your app have any server-side content (apart from user-generated content)?

badbathvor 12 Jahren

No, all of the content is user-generated. For this content, we just display it in the language it was submitted. The localization I was talking about is more for static things like buttons and general navigation around app.