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Question - IDE Localized game name [Solved]

Alec20

Member
How do I localize the name of my game? (is for Android in my case)
ie: someone from Japan install my game, the gameplay is completely translated but the app name remains in english
Where do I put translated display names? is it even possible to do in gms2?
 
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chirpy

Member
You can do it by adding localization resources to an Android extension.
Create one and add via "add source | add SDK", or simply add folders to e.g. GooglePlayServicesExtension.

Under AndroidSource/res/ , add "values-ja/mystrings.xml" with xml body:
Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
<string name="app_name">MyLocalizedName</string>
</resources>
I don't quite remember whether if you have to add default "values/mystrings.xml" as well, but it's somewhat like this.

Reference:
https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/resources/localization
 

Alec20

Member
You can do it by adding localization resources to an Android extension.
Create one and add via "add source | add SDK", or simply add folders to e.g. GooglePlayServicesExtension.

Under AndroidSource/res/ , add "values-ja/mystrings.xml" with xml body:
Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
<string name="app_name">MyLocalizedName</string>
</resources>
I don't quite remember whether if you have to add default "values/mystrings.xml" as well, but it's somewhat like this.

Reference:
https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/resources/localization
Thank you so much!
it helped a lot
 

gkri

Member
@chirpy I get those warnings (testing with an empty project) even before (and after) trying to localize and when I tried to localize the name based your instructions, I had no success.

Am I missing something?

GML:
> Task :com.company.manitest:processDebugManifest
W:\com.company.manitest\src\main\AndroidManifest.xml:27:3-76:17 Warning:
    application@android:label was tagged at AndroidManifest.xml:27 to replace other declarations but no other declaration present
W:\com.company.manitest\src\main\AndroidManifest.xml:28:5-37:16 Warning:
    activity#com.company.manitest.RunnerActivity@android:label was tagged at AndroidManifest.xml:28 to replace other declarations but no other declaration present
EDIT: While the warnings are still a mistery to me. I managed to make it work with your method. But I will report here what confused me so it may help others.

When importing the localized strings.xml file via "add source | add SDK", they will go to AndroidSource/Java/res/..etc.. for some reason.
So after importing, I right click the extension -> open in Explorer and moved all the locale files into AndroidSource/res/...etc.. and then it worked.

Thank you!
 
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