How to localize my app with Xcode 5?

internationalization, ios, localization, xcode, xcode5

Solution

It's quite simple once you understand it.

The first thing you want to do is add a localization file to your project. To do so, simply select your project's main group

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then, from the toolbar, select `File → New → File...` (or just hold down `⌘N`) .

Under the `Resource` category, select `Strings File` , and name it `Localizable.strings` (note that it is case sensitive) .

Now that we have our localizable file, we can click on the `Localize...` button, in the `File Inspector`

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Xcode is going to ask you if you want to localize the file, just click on `Localize` with `Base` selected .

Now this next part is a bit tricky. We need to enter our project's `Info` section, to do so, click on the project file in Xcode's `Navigator`, then to your right you'll see a category named `PROJECT`, click on your project file under this category

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Now we can add our desired language under the `Localizations` category. I'll add `Norwegian`

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It's `important` that we only leave our `Localizable.strings` file checked in the menu that appears .

Now we can expand our `Localizable.strings` file in the `Navigator` to see our localizable files .

We now how our `Base` file (within our `Localizable.strings` file), which will be our app's "main language", and our previously selected language.

It's important to know that the structure of these files needs to be identical. You'll see what I mean in just a sec.

In our `Base`, I'll add a string named `it_worked`, and add it's localization

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And in our previously selected language (In my case `Norwegian`), i'll add the same string `it_worked` (to keep the structure), but with a different localization

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Now that we have our localized file, we can make our app read it when needed.

I added a `UILabel` to my app, so that we can make our app display the localized text.

[myLabel setText:NSLocalizedString(@"it_worked", nil)];

Now if I launch my app, we'll see our base language

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and if I change the language of the simulator to Norwegian, we'll see our other language

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