vnidrop/localization

Localization

Single source of truth for every user-facing string, in strings.json. A Bun CLI generates the platform-native files from it:

Target	Output	Notes
apple	apple/VniDrop/Resources/Localizable.xcstrings	one catalog, all languages nested
kmp	shared/src/commonMain/composeResources/values[-lang]/strings.xml	one file per language

Workflow

# From the repository root:
make check-localization      # structural checks (run before committing)
make localization            # regenerate .xcstrings + strings.xml from strings.json
make localization-migrate    # one-time: rebuild strings.json from platform files

Never edit the generated .xcstrings / strings.xml by hand — edit strings.json and regenerate. Regenerated output is deterministic (sorted keys), so diffs stay small.

strings.json format

{
  "sourceLanguage": "en",
  "supportedLanguages": ["en", "fr"],
  "strings": {
    "send_title": {
      "context": "Send tab — screen title.",
      "translations": { "en": "Send", "fr": "Envoyer" }
    },

    "send_selected_files_count": {
      "context": "Send flow — number of files chosen before creating a transfer.",
      "targets": ["kmp", "apple"],
      "args": [{ "name": "count", "type": "int" }],
      "plural": {
        "en": { "one": "{count} file selected", "other": "{count} files selected" },
        "fr": { "one": "{count} fichier sélectionné", "other": "{count} fichiers sélectionnés" }
      }
    }
  }
}

Fields

• context (required) — where the string appears and its purpose. Emitted as the .xcstrings comment and an XML comment; also the note translators see.
• targets (optional) — ["kmp", "apple"]. Omit to mean all targets.
• args (optional) — ordered list of { name, type }, type ∈ string | int | double. Referenced in text as {name}.
• translations — flat text per language. Mutually exclusive with plural.
• plural — per language, per CLDR category (zero, one, two, few, many, other). other is always required.

Placeholders

Write named tokens {count}, {name} in text. The generator converts them to the right positional token per platform, using the declared type:

type	Apple	Android/KMP
string	%N$@	%N$s
int	%N$d	%N$d
double	%N$f	%N$f

A literal % in text is emitted as %% whenever the string has args.

Adding a language

Add its code to supportedLanguages, fill in translations / plural for each key, then generate. KMP gets a new values-<lang>/strings.xml; Apple gets the language inside the single catalog. validate warns about any key still missing that language.

Migration notes (from the initial import)

• Apple keys that were literal English strings ("%@ · %@") were imported verbatim — rename them to semantic keys and update the Swift call sites.
• Arg names default to arg1, arg2… (a lone int arg becomes count). Rename for clarity; keep the {token} in text in sync.
• Folding transfer_file_count_one / _other into the plural key transfer_file_count requires switching the KMP call site from Res.string.transfer_file_count_one to the Compose plural API (pluralStringResource(Res.plurals.transfer_file_count, count, count)), and the Apple side to automatic plural inflection.