If you’re an app developer hoping to build the next Instagram or Candy Crush, it is imperative you reach as large an audience as possible. Offering your mobile app in just one language not only limits your chances of viral growth, it all but dooms your application to fail. With a significant portion of mobile device growth in countries like China, Japan, India, and the United Arab Emirates, it is crucial for developers to offer their applications in numerous languages. Luckily for today’s app creators, there are more localization tools available than ever before. If you are interested in a localization-as-a-service offering for your app builds, the following are a few powerful tools you should have on your programmer’s resource list:
Qordoba
Qordoba offers a multi-featured localization tool for app creators. Features include a live rendering editor (no test device needed), foreign language push notifications, instant content updates, custom workflow options, status monitoring, and translation memory. The Qordoba SDK automatically extracts necessary strings and syncs metadata for multiple app stores. Customize the look of your app for specific countries and even utilize push notifications on a country-by-country basis. Pretty powerful growth hacking tool, right?
(qordoba.com/for_mobile)
POEditor
POEditor can be used to localize content for anything from a mobile gaming app to a website. Features include real-time updates for in-process translations, smart memory translation, and a REST API. POEditor integrates with GitHub, Bitbucket, WordPress, Slack, and HipChat and even offers public crowdsourced translation capabilities (great for community building). With detailed geo-specific analytics, this is one app localization tool you can’t afford to overlook.
(poeditor.com)
Applanga
Applanga offers real-time translations, live translation editing, and a powerful SDK that instantly pulls content from your application for editing. You can review translated content on multiple devices, collaborate with remote team members, and view interaction analytics for specific countries. They even offer a free option to get you started with app localization.
(applanga.com/web)
With tools like these at your disposal, there is no reason to put off multi-language app translation. You can connect with app consumers around the world to boost app installs and improve your app’s traction numbers. Will you be adding any of these resources to your programmer’s bag of tricks?
