The Only App Localization Tutorial You Will Ever Need
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<strong>The</strong> <strong>Only</strong> <strong>App</strong> <strong>Localization</strong> <strong>Tutorial</strong> <strong>You</strong> <strong>Will</strong> <strong>Ever</strong> <strong>Need</strong><br />
text, images, screen layouts, and even app behavior may all need to be localized when<br />
producing a version of the app for another language.<br />
Getting In Early With Internationalization<br />
With good planning, internationalization costs of an app can be minimized by making the<br />
internationalization process part of the app design and development. Like bug fixes, the earlier<br />
internationalization is done in the app’s life cycle, the more cost-efficient it is. Operating<br />
systems like Android and iOS now make internationalization capability an integral part of their<br />
platform. One main language-independent version of the app can be managed with sets of<br />
resource files (text, graphics, etc.) corresponding to the default language (for example, English)<br />
and to each localization language. By comparison, internationalizing an existing app may have<br />
an incidence on costs (higher) and quality (lower). Back in the 1980s, Lotus 1-2-3 lost its market<br />
lead in Europe to Microsoft Multiplan, because it took Lotus 1-2-3 two years to disentangle user<br />
text strings from its application code.<br />
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