Lingua: Translation Catalog

Lingua is an app for developers who need to manage translated strings.

Project Details

• Project File: Lingua.xcodeproj
• Scheme Name: Lingua
• Minimum iOS SDK: 26.0
• Minimum macOS SDK: 26.0

Config	Bundle ID	Distribution	Debug
Debug	com.richardpiazza.lingua	Local	TRUE
Release	com.richardpiazza.lingua	App Store	FALSE

Release Planning

Multiple iterations are already planned for Lingua, but a MVP is needed to determine feature viability. The base feature set includes:

• Project, Expression, and Translation management.
• Filesystem url (macOS-only)
• Generate Apple & Android strings files
• Import Apple & Android strings files

Priority Next Features:

• Translation State: 'not-translated'/'translated'.
• String Catalog import/export.
• Specialty Queries:
  • Expressions without a Translation
    • Expressions without all Locales
    • Expressions with un-translated values

Additional Features are planned:

• Pluralization Support (Vary by Plural)
• Device Variants (Vary by Device)
• Document-Based App
• CloudKit Syncing
• 'Team' sharing of CloudKit containers?
• 'Team' usage through managed API
• Additional file-based Catalog types for SVN

Beta Phase

Features should be implemented in a way that allows for development to move forward quickly. The initial implementation will use the Sandbox DB only. (After "export", an initial beta may be considered)

• General Pane-Style Interface Layout
• Expression List
• Expression Management (create/delete)
• Translation List
• Translation Management (create/delete)
• Project List
• Project Management (create/delete)
• Link/Unlink Expression to Project
• Import Files (non-linked/project-linked)
• Export Files (all-expressions/project-expressions)
• Select Catalog (filesystem-macOS)
• [ ] Select Catalog (CloudKit)

Links

• FileWrappers