This document discusses iOS app localization based on the example of the Simply Piano app. It covers why localization is important for leveraging non-English markets and App Store placement. Stats show the app was featured in 9 countries' App Stores and non-English countries make up 30-50% of revenue. Challenges include cost and maintaining translations across releases. The document also details a custom localization framework that streamlines the process and addresses issues like layout bugs and localizing videos and cultural elements.
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These are the slides of my presentation about Talking to Architects and Specification at the CAB Regional Members’ Meeting & Mini-Conference at Hollins Hall, Bradford on 23 February 2012. There was live tweeting with the #CABEvent Hashtag – see the interactions here:
http://bit.ly/xLNytD
Talking to Architects: Council for Aluminium in Building Mini Conference, Bra...Su Butcher
These are the slides of my presentation about Talking to Architects and Specification at the CAB Regional Members’ Meeting & Mini-Conference at Hollins Hall, Bradford on 23 February 2012. There was live tweeting with the #CABEvent Hashtag – see the interactions here:
http://bit.ly/xLNytD
Taller de vins escumosos del món del Curs de tast de vins per winelovers II de Laura Masramon.
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This presentation was originally given at the http://www.worldforumdisrupt.com/growth-hacking-world-forum/ conference by myself Janet Balneaves.
The content combines much of what has been published on the Skyscanner Growth blog medium.com/@Skyscanner.
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Many businesses are looking for growth outside the United States and Europe. To capture these new markets dedicated engineering effort will be required. This talk will provide tips for developing apps intended for an international audience.
This talk will cover:
- Process of translating app
- Supporting RTL for Arabic, Farsi, Hebrew, and Urdu speaking users
- Accepting payments in regions where credit card penetration is low - Performance on low end networks. Specifically covering Twitter’s move from PNG/JPEG to WebP.
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Top 4 Cross Platform tools for Mobile App Developmenttechugo
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Taller de vins escumosos del món del Curs de tast de vins per winelovers II de Laura Masramon.
Taller de vinos espumosos del mundo del Curso de cata de vinos para amantes del vino II de Laura Masramon.
As presented at the Amazon Appstore Summit, London in November 2015. Skyscanner walks through its recent history, how buying travel and buying books are very different (but users don't care), how the principles of our products are applied to voice search and how we built a basic Alexa flight search.
Lightning Talk #8: Digital Transformation in Asia – The Real Deal by Kanika A...ux singapore
Digital Transformation has become a heart throbbing topic for every business, leader and employee. Many don’t know what it is but everyone still wants to be a part of it. Leaders know its importance yet they are struggling with how to drive digital transformation.
In her presentation Kanika would like to share about the state of digital transformation in Asia and a step by step guide on how to become a digital enterprise.
Skyscanner reached a point in late 2014 when, despite having a healthy number of very talented marketing experts, we just weren’t achieving the growth rates we knew our product was capable of.
When considering why that might be, we realised we had a fantastic product that our loyal users loved, but that we had become trapped in applying the conventional old school marketing wisdom that have worked for many years in traditional organisations, whilst the marketing landscape had completely changed. We didn’t have a growth mindset or organisational model befitting of an Internet Company operating in the Online Travel space. So we set about changing that.
This presentation was originally given at the http://www.worldforumdisrupt.com/growth-hacking-world-forum/ conference by myself Janet Balneaves.
The content combines much of what has been published on the Skyscanner Growth blog medium.com/@Skyscanner.
Opening the Black Box of Software LocalizationKenneth Farrall
Going global with your mobile apps, SaaS, and cloud solutions requires translation and localization for multiple languages. Software developers and technical writers may be the most tech-savvy people around, but if you aren't familiar with the localization process, it can look like a black box. In this presentation, we'll break open the black box and unpack the tools and workflows used by software localization experts.
Testing with an Accent: Internationalization TestingTechWell
Finding time to test the basic functionality, performance, and security of a system is difficult enough, so how do you find time to add internationalization (i18n) and localization (l10n) testing? Today’s world is very small, and you may already have international users in your target market. Can you really afford to ignore those who can’t enter their name correctly with the default US-ASCII character set? Will it still be a quality product to them? Paul Carvalho shares how you can—with a little creative thinking and design—incorporate i18n and l10n testing into your regular routine. Great testing requires the right mindset, applied insight, preparation, and dedication. Learn how to identify the system elements that pose juicy risks; go beyond looking at the UI, using simple tools and tricks you can try right away; and discuss ways to integrate i18n into your functional testing in a fun way with little overhead. Impress your co-workers and delight your customers!
I gave this presentation at Confab 2012, the Content Strategy conference in Minneapolis, US. It's an updated version of the one I gave in September 2011 at the Content Strategy Forum in London.
At Walt Disney Parks and Resorts Technology, we provide the applications and infrastructure our online guests use to plan, book, explore, and enjoy their stay at our parks and resorts. With millions of page views per day and a multi-billion dollar ecommerce booking engine, we face a unique set of challenges. Join Les Honniball for insights into how they work with Product Owners and development teams to design tests, both manual and automated for these challenges. Les explains the testing processes that support a global set of brands on one web platform, including successful QA strategies, analytics, and user experience design―all while working within an agile development process. Discover how Les and his team of QA engineers work with various development teams in Orlando FL, Glendale CA, and Argentina to support many areas of Walt Disney Parks and Resorts Technology Business.
Many businesses are looking for growth outside the United States and Europe. To capture these new markets dedicated engineering effort will be required. This talk will provide tips for developing apps intended for an international audience.
This talk will cover:
- Process of translating app
- Supporting RTL for Arabic, Farsi, Hebrew, and Urdu speaking users
- Accepting payments in regions where credit card penetration is low - Performance on low end networks. Specifically covering Twitter’s move from PNG/JPEG to WebP.
The contents of this talk are derived from experiences at Twitter, interviews with app developers in MENA region, and Google Android guidelines.
Top 4 Cross Platform tools for Mobile App Developmenttechugo
Scope of Cross Platform App Development is bright as developers and engineers find it easy and interesting to use a single code base to compile and deploy their app on all major mobile platforms. Top 4 Cross Platform Development tools are discussed here in the presentation, with few of their major pros and cons:
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How to Drive 500 000 App Installs? FareFirst caseTravelpayouts
Jaseel Seethintakath, CPO of FareFirst, shared, at Travelpayouts Affiliate Summit 2019, his own experience of creating an app with Travelpayouts SDK. Learn how to do keyword research and promote the app in stores.
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In this 45 minute session you'll learn:
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All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
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The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
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3. ABOUT SIMPLY PIANO
• Realtime feedback, works with
any piano or keyboard
• Trusted by millions of piano
learners in over 100 countries.
Localized to 11 languages.
• #1 on product hunt (> 1000
upvotes)
• 5-stars average star ratings
4. GLOSSARY
• Internationalization (i18n) - the process of
designing and building an application to
facilitate localization
• Localization (L10n) - the cultural and
linguistic adaptation of an internationalized
application
5. WHY LOCALIZE?
• Leverage your KPIs with non-US markets.
• A prerequisite for being featured on App Store globally.
https://www.appannie.com/insights/market-data/q3-2016-index-china-hits-ios-app-store-milestone/
6. WHY LOCALIZE - OUR STATS
• Featured in Front Page
of App Store in 9
countries
• Top grossing education
app in China
• 30% => 50% of revenue
from non-English
speaking countries
7. WHY NOT LOCALIZE?
• Cost of internationalization
• Cost of translation
• Cost of culturalization
• A new dimension on the testing matrix
(DEVICE x OS x LANG)
• Not a 1-time cost: new features / releases
https://www.flickr.com/photos/pictures-of-money/171219239
8. • Open Source - https://github.com/joytunes/JTLocalize
• Aims to solve common pains in built-in mechanism
• JTLocalizedString instead of NSLocalizedString in code
• JTLabel, JTButton, JTTextField, … in storyboards
• A set of python scripts
9. • Single Localizable.strings file without duplicates
Code
StoryboardStoryboardStoryboardStoryboard
Localizable.strings
10. • Easy workflow for localizing a new version / feature
prepare_diff
.strings file with
only new strings
Translation
localized diffmerge
11. • Update strings from server
• Misc. capabilities: chicken test, word_count,
change locale on runtime, …
12. LAYOUT BUGS
• Avoid relying on label’s
intrinsic content size for
other views’ constraints
13. LAYOUT BUGS
• Avoid fixed font size and making assumptions on text length.
• Apart from setting scale factor, and not “Word Wrap”, use
numberOfLines = 0 and a height constraint.
14. LAYOUT BUGS
• No way in Auto Layout to set constraints on font sizes of labels.
• Enumerate on font sizes using String’s boundingRectWithSize
on the longest string per language.
15. LOCALIZING VIDEOS
• Subtitles embedded in QuickTime instead of different video
per language
• Presented in WWDC '13 session 608,
otherwise undocumented
• Use ffmpeg for embedding translated srt files to video
• Problem: ISO639-2 has no separation to Simplified vs.
Traditional Chinese (zh-Hans vs. zh-Hant)
16. LOCALIZING VIDEOS -
NARRATION
• QuickTime supports multiple audio tracks
• Couldn’t get it to work with ffmpeg
• File size impact would be substantial
• Ended up muting sound and using a
separate AVAudioPlayer
• Fiverr
18. CULTURALIZATION
(IN OUR CASE)
• Note names vs. Chord
names
• Song names
(Lightly Row / Little Yonatan)
• Locale based songs
• Don’t forget England and
Australia
(Quarter vs. Crotchet, …)
