Translating Idle Daddy

translations.md

Creating a new translation

• All of the English strings used in the app can be found in strings.xml, use this file as the base for your new translation.
• Copy and Paste the text from strings.xml into a text editor (e.g. notepad++) and begin editing.

Translating strings

• strings.xml contains items that look like below, these are your strings:

<string name="status">Status</string>

• You only need to translate the part between the opening and closing <string> tags, leave the name=key part untranslated. For example (from the Bulgarian translation):

<string name="status">Статус</string>

Translating plurals

• strings.xml contains other items that look like below, these are your plurals:

<plurals name="games_left">
    <item quantity="one">%d game left to idle</item>
    <item quantity="other">%d games left to idle</item>
</plurals>

• <item quantity="one"> is the string used when there is only one item (e.g. "1 game left to idle")
• <item quantity="other"> is the string used when there is any other number of items (e.g. "2 games left to idle")
• Example translation (German):

<plurals name="games_left">
    <item quantity="one">%d Spiel kann noch inaktiv im Hintergrund laufen</item>
    <item quantity="other">%d Spiele können noch inaktiv im Hintergrund laufen</item>
</plurals>

(Note that %d here is always replaced with the number of items)

Finishing

• Save your translation as a .xml file
• Send an email to [email protected] with the file attached, the name you want to be credited as, and whether or not you'd like me to link to your Steam profile in the about section.