Add the option to translate Fastlane (app store details) in Weblate

[yurtpage]

👍 This very important because the F-Droid doesn't make an auto translation and non English speakers can't understand what the app is doing.

Here is a sample of Conversations app metadata translation via Weblate https://translate.codeberg.org/projects/conversations/app-store-metadata-conversations/

[lucasmz-dev]

because the F-Droid doesn't make an auto translation

Thankfully! I would be pretty sad if they did that to be honest; machine translation or bad translations makes things less accessible than just keeping it in the native language or English.

Right now, I can open a PR to add some metadata, and I suppose it would work, but it's very manual and I wouldn't be notified of changes and updates to the original string as what I can do with Weblate.

[lucasmz-dev]

After doing what I said above, I realize it's a bit more complicated, still I feel like it's possible to have at least the short and full description, and maybe title if that makes sense.

OnionShare has some graphics and images which are hard to translate; not sure if there's files to be able to do that or something. See #128.

[yurtpage]

Even without images i18n it would be really useful.

[grote]

upstream source files seem to be here: https://codeberg.org/iNPUTmice/Conversations/src/branch/master/src/conversations/fastlane/metadata/android/en-US

We would need to check how to include this in weblate the same way. Maybe @emmapeel2 knows.

[yurtpage]

Here more details about translation for the full_description.txt https://github.com/WeblateOrg/weblate/issues/1525#issuecomment-464086454

[emmapeel2]

upstream source files seem to be here: https://codeberg.org/iNPUTmice/Conversations/src/branch/master/src/conversations/fastlane/metadata/android/en-US

To add to weblate is easy: you need to create this folder structure in a repository, and we can hook it up to a new weblate component. I can do that under the OnionShare weblate project.

What I don´t know is where do you tell Fastlane to pick up the translations.

[lucasmz-dev]

I thought Fastlane just picked it up automatically?

[emmapeel2]

Oooooh, I see, the files are already in the repo (duh! I didn´t looked). I will add it to weblate, linked to the other components.

[emmapeel2]

OK, I have added the component to weblate, you can translate the metadata here: https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/onionshare/android-metadata/

It was very easy with weblate already supporting the format, and it is only one component instead of 4 little one-string components.

[lucasmz-dev]

Just in case, PT-BR translations are not yet showing up, I believe an app update (or something) triggers that.

[emmapeel2]

I guess new releases will provide the translations. Weblate is already submitting them to the repository: https://github.com/onionshare/onionshare-android/pull/126/files