Don’t leave your app half baked – add local flavors
App stores like Apple’s iStore are giving app developers and creators unprecedented scope to catapult their apps to larger markets and newer user bases. But regardless of how strong, fresh, well-made, and fluid an app is, you’re likely to suffer from dead ends if you don’t cover some basics of app placement.
In short, localization is simply an attention to detail that makes an application usable for a specific language, segment, or culture.
Without this fundamental table in place, even a robust and radical app can fall on deaf ears and go unnoticed when approached by a user in a particular country or dialect. For localization to be configured, an application must also be organically suitable for internationalization. That means that developers must, up front, make the application adapt to differences in formats, user specifications, and other details that will change from language to language and country to country.
Proper internationalization, in and of itself, largely takes care of the effective placement of the application.
Here are some tips that may be helpful to aspiring iOS developers and gamers to ensure that the app doesn’t vanish in the moment of truth.
Don’t wait for the app to be completely ready before inserting the iOS location. It should be done proactively, at the coding stage only, rather than an afterthought. Internalize the relevant code and strings and hand them over to professional and experienced translators for the desired language. They can take care not only of number, calendar, date and time formats, but also other local aspects that can come into play when a user interacts with an application or when the application display is activated.
Export the parts and strings in the desired format and provide translators with as much information and context as you can. Differentiate well between user-oriented parts and other parts of the code to speed up the process.
Keep working on localizing iOS at your level (image, music, etc.) through the app building process while the translators are working. It’s a way of thinking and once you’re tuned into the differences that location addresses, the app will be nimble enough to make sense of many languages and segments when needed.
Once the translated content is imported, your work begins in a new way. You have to make sure that it assimilates well and works as you want. Proper and relentless testing is a good way to check localization effort. This should be done both at the developer level and by allowing some users to test the application to see their perspective and the gaps that may still exist.
Keep checking and updating the app with the iOS location and translation as the app grows and adds new versions. Having standard API helps increase the scope and ease of this process.
Sometimes the resources at stake can be optimized and the footprint per location and associated cost can be reduced by having the regional orientation in the correct order with the language orientation. Markets like USA, UK, Australia, APAC; for example; They have the same language of use, English, as long as time differences and minor details are well incorporated.
It pays, in the long run, to allow enough time and space for nuances and differences that go beyond standard time / calendar changes. As some user segments and languages work from right to left instead of the direction of the text from left to right. Such material contrasts cannot be included in the last moment of an application design.
As we can see, location is an important parameter for leading app stores. In addition, the remarkable growth and spread of iOS make it imperative that developers give this part the necessary attention from the beginning and also long after the launch of the application.
It’s all about keeping the user experience smooth and hassle-free.
