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Started 4 months ago by vmk_student
Latest reply from MandarX

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vmk_student
Member

Hello!
I'm starting developing for ios. Decided to use Cocos2d for my game.
Start reading tutorials just to understand how to work with framework. I have one question, and hope you' ll help me to understand that issue.

I know that cocos2d automatically gets localized versions of image for CCSprite, if you have image with text and it should be localized.
You just have to create directories:
Resources/en.lproj
Resources/ru.lproj
Am I right? )
And here is the question:
Will sprite sheets be handled in the same way? I mean if I have directories for each language and files sprites.png and sprites.plist in each folder, will this approach work?
Will cocos2d retrieve localized image based on device's locale?

Thank you in advance for your answers. Sorry for my english :)

Posted 4 months ago #
Birkemose
Moderator

The answer is yes.
Localization is not a cocos2d thing though. When you create support for new countries, xCode creates the needed folders, and copy the needed files ( at least when they fix all the bugs ). Cocos2d knows nothing of localization.
With that said, remember that if you add support for 4 languages, and include a huge sprites sheet, it will be included 4 times in you ipa, so you will only want to localize what is absolutely necessary.

Posted 4 months ago #
vmk_student
Member

Thank you for your answer

>>you will only want to localize what is absolutely necessary

yes, I know it. I'm going to localize just couple of buttons with text and I'll place them in separate sprite sheets.

Posted 4 months ago #
Birkemose
Moderator

And in my experience, the later you can add localization to your app, the less weird behavior you will get. I guess the perfect scenario would be to add localization when the app is done.

Posted 4 months ago #
Martin
Member

Is there any data on actual increase in sales due to localization? I wasn't planning on localizing my app. Getting it done seems hard enough to me.

Posted 4 months ago #
Birkemose
Moderator

I think there is, provided that your app is any good.
France and Germany are big markets, and you will get a lot more attention those places, if you have localized descriptions and apps.
I would also bet, that the same thing goes for the spanish speaking stores.

And as I said. If you wait with localizing until the app is done, it is less problematic than one should think.

Posted 4 months ago #
Martin
Member

Thanks. I think I'll focus on getting it done first and then I still can think about localizing.

Posted 4 months ago #
MandarX
Member

I used Apple's localization and I wasn't happy

I had to make a singleton that detects the current language and loads the right resources for you

to find the current language use:

[[NSLocale preferredLanguages] objectAtIndex:0]]

MandarX

Posted 3 months ago #

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