Introduction

Brighteriffic is currently translated in English, French and Spanish.

I'd love to have more translations.

This document explains what is involved.

Details

Before starting to translate anything, please contact me at ralfoide gmail com to make sure I don't already have a similar translation in progress.

You will need:

• A text editor, or simply an email application.
• You don't need any knowledge of how to develop for Android, nor any coding knowledge in fact.
• The file to be edited is an XML file. It's fine if you have no clue what this means :-)

Language

First you need to decide which language you can provide. Languages in Android are codified using a 2-letter "language code", followed by an optional "region code".

Most of the time only the language code is needed, for example en=English, fr=French, etc.

==> Simply look at the "ISO 639-1" column on this page (the second column) and tell me which language code is best.

Region codes are rarely used, they only serve to differentiate two versions of the same language, for example US English (en-US) versus British (en-GB), so we can ignore that here.

Translation

The original text to translate is located at res/values/strings.xml on this site.

A typical line looks like this:

<string name="min_button_percent">Set Min to %d%%</string>

If you're not familiar with XML, this means:

• A new string is being defined, it has a name and the value is the text between the >...< brackets.
• The special notation %d means an integer value will be inserted here.
• The special notation %s means a string will be inserted here.
• The special notation %% will show as a single percentage.

So on-screen, that particular string will look like

Set Min to 42%

All you have to do is copy the file's content in a text editor or email editor, translate it as you think is best and email that to me at ralfoide gmail com.