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user836026

Reputation: 11350

How to localise App name using Xcode 6 (iOS 8)

I simply need to localise my app name using Xcode 6. I tried to add: 

"CFBundleDisplayName" = "App name";
"CFBundleName" = "App name";

to localizable.strings but it didn't work.

Did I miss anything.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1687

Answers (1)

SevenBits
SevenBits

Reputation: 2874

The reason that it doesn't work is because you need to add the localizations to your InfoPlist.strings file, not localizable.strings. This link explains how and even gives an example.

Please make sure that in your Xcode project settings, you have installed each language that you want to localize and have put the relevant keys inside the InfoPlist.strings file of the language that you want to work with.

For example, let's say that you have these keys inside of your Info.plist file:

<key>CFBundleDisplayName</key>
<string>Super Fun App</string>
<key>NSHumanReadableCopyright</key>
<string>Copyright © 2014, ACME Inc. All Rights Reserved.
</string>

If you want to localize this title so Spanish-speaking users will see the app name and copyright in their native language, then inside of your es-ES.lproj folder (which should have been added by Xcode when you added Spanish, or whatever language) you would add this to your InfoPlist.strings file:

CFBundleDisplayName = "Aplicación Divertidisimo";
NSHumanReadableCopyright = "Copyright © 2014, ACME Inc. Todos los Derechos Reservados.";

In the future, if you ever want to modify anything in the Info.plist for a specific localization, then the general template to use is:

key = "localized value"

This is of course not specific to Spanish; the procedure is the same for all languages supported by Xcode.

Upvotes: 4

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