Text in alternative languages

[touchsquid]

I have coded a fairly complex B4A application using explicit strings in the dialogs and titles. This works OK, but I have a need to substitute these for different languages, French first, but later many others.

In native Android it seems they use resource files for this, almost exactly as I am used to in Windows Visual Studio.

I thought of using MAP files, which would certainly work but how would I create them outside of the B4K environment? Are they XML? What is the format?

Is there another way? Any suggestions are welcome.

 

[touchsquid]

Answering my own question--maybe?

What about an SQLite database, where key is an abbreviated version of the English phrase and each column is named by language and contains the non-English phrases.

I can easily create the database from an Excel spreadsheet, and import with SQlite tools.

The only objection I see is the database gets bigger with each language added, but the app contains only a few dozen phrases, so it wouldn't ever get huge.

Unless a better idea turns up, we'll do it this way.

 

[moster67]

See this thread:

http://www.b4x.com/forum/additional-libraries-official-updates/7561-ahlocale-library.html

 

[touchsquid]

Thank you so much! I searched but did not use the word locale...