Android string resources

Translate Android XML string resources directly from the base res/values directory. autoglot understands strings, plurals, and string arrays and generates the locale-specific values directories Android builds automatically.

Extensions: .xml files inside res/values
Output model: One values-<locale> directory per target language

Base resource

xml

<!-- app/src/main/res/values/strings.xml -->
<resources>
  <string name="welcome">Welcome, %1$s</string>
  <plurals name="item_count">
    <item quantity="one">%d item</item>
    <item quantity="other">%d items</item>
  </plurals>
</resources>

German resource

xml

<!-- app/src/main/res/values-de/strings.xml -->
<resources>
  <string name="welcome">Willkommen, %1$s</string>
  <plurals name="item_count">
    <item quantity="one">%d Element</item>
    <item quantity="other">%d Elemente</item>
  </plurals>
</resources>

What autoglot preserves

<string>, <plurals>, and <string-array> resources
Resource names, attributes, namespaces, and ordering
printf and positional placeholders such as %1$s and %d
Android-compatible quote, newline, and resource-reference escaping

Set the GitHub action paths input to the base res/values directory. autoglot ignores non-string XML resources and writes Android locale qualifiers such as values-de, values-pt-rBR, and values-b+zh+Hans.