Different app name for different languages? how?

Solar2D General Questions/Discussion
1

How can one localize (or is it internationalize) the App Name that will be displayed for different languages?   For example if the name of the app is a noun that is different in different languages.

How do you do this in Corona & does this work for each platform. 

(is IOS land I’m talking about the name that appears on the app icon [short name] as well as the full name itself)

2

On iOS builds you can on the root folder, add the folder en.lproj, pt.lproj or/and fr.lproj depending which language do you want to support. In this folder you can add a file named InfoPlist.strings, and the content go like this: 

CFBundleDisplayName = “Your App name in the language you want”;

This will change the display name according to the device language.

You can also insert on this folders the Default.png images to localize those to.

3

thanks - can you then test this using an adhoc build?  would you just change the language/region on your IOS device and then see the change?

4

On iOS builds you can on the root folder, add the folder en.lproj, pt.lproj or/and fr.lproj depending which language do you want to support. In this folder you can add a file named InfoPlist.strings, and the content go like this: 

CFBundleDisplayName = “Your App name in the language you want”;

This will change the display name according to the device language.

You can also insert on this folders the Default.png images to localize those to.

5

thanks - can you then test this using an adhoc build?  would you just change the language/region on your IOS device and then see the change?