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RubustringsXml

Check the format and consistency of the strings.xml files of Android Apps with multi-language support

Rubustrings is also available for iOS here

Usage

It only needs the base strings.xml file and a translated strings.xml file as arguments

./rubustringsxml ./res/values/strings.xml ./res/values-es/strings.xml

Validators

Currently Rubustrings validates:

• The syntaxis of the strings file: Just checking the xml format of the file
• Dynamic values (%d, %ld, %s,...): It checks that the translation include the same set of them than the original string.
• Special characters at the beginning or at the end: If the original string begins or ends with a white space,\n or \r it tests that the translation also does.

It also warning on:

• Translation significantly large: In translations 3 times larger than original string

Example

dcordero@silver:~$ ./rubustringsxml res/values/strings.xml res/values-es/strings.xml

Processing files:
 - res/values/strings.xml
 - res/values-es/strings.xml
 
✘ Error, number of variables mismatch: "Phone %s" - "Teléfono"
✘ Error, special beginning mismatch: "\nWeb" - "Web"
⊗ Warning, translation significantly large: "Tubasa" - "Transportes Urbanos de Badajoz"

✘ Some errors detected

dcordero@silver:~$ ./rubustringsxml res/values/strings.xml res/values-es/strings.xml

Processing files:
 - res/values/strings.xml
 - res/values-es/strings.xml
 
✓ Strings files validated succesfully

Future validators

• Warning on untranslated strings
• Validate strings arrays
• Validate quantity strings

License

MIT License (MIT) Copyright (c) 2014 @dcordero