Strings Utility

Swift utility written in Go which automates boring Swift strings tasks like:

• Feature 1: Constantify Strings Creates global constant variables from all .swift files to a constant file
• Feature 2: Localize Strings Transform all valid translatable strings as NSLocalizedString and copies them to all Localizable.strings files while avoiding duplicated strings
• Feature 3: Translate Strings Uses Google Cloud Translation to automatically translate all strings in all Localizable.strings, allowing iOS, MacOS, etc apps to support multiple languages in a few seconds

Live Demo

Why Use?

• Avoid unintended typos
• Have strings autocompleted
• Easily manage all your strings in one file
• Auto generate strings Localizable.strings and avoid duplicate strings
• Automatically translate all strings in Localizable.strings

How to Use?

Download StringsUtility

• clone the repo

$ git clone https://github.com/SamuelFolledo/StringsUtility
$ cd StringsUtility

Install Golang with Updated Homebrew:

• Make sure HomeBrew is updated

$ brew update
$ brew install golang

Setup Google Cloud Translator: Required for feature 3 only

• Set up a Cloud Console project
• Download a private key as JSON
• While inside StringsUtility directory, run in terminal once

$ go get -u cloud.google.com/go/translate

• Important: Run this command once each fresh terminal. Replace the [PATH] to the path of the .json file downloaded from setup 2 step 3. Instructions for more info or for Windows setup

  export GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS=[PATH]
  

  For example:

  export GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS=/Users/Samuel/Downloads/StringsUtility-Tester-785c7f11aedf.json
  

For further details, tips, recommendations go to Tips and Requirements

Run StringsUtility

• run the program locally replacing [PATH_TO_YOUR_PROJECT] with your project directory

  $ go build && go run main.go -dir=[PATH_TO_YOUR_PROJECT]
  

  For example:

  go build && go run main.go -dir=/Users/macbookpro15/Desktop/StringsUtilityTester
  

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Tips and Requirements:

• Currently does not support multi line strings
• To avoid unnecessary translation, strings which contains substrings like file extensions, keywords, and symbols will not be translated. Edit strings and files to follow these standards.

  "/", "\\", "{", "}", "_", "#", "%", ".swift", ".xib", ".storyboard", ".jpg", ".jpeg", ".png", ".mp4", ".mp3", ".wav", ".mov", ".gif", "http", "https", ".com", "identifier"
  

• Strings like url, identifiers, and more which contains substrings like the following will not be constantify.

  "/", "\\", "{", "}", "http", "https", ".com", "#", "%", "identifier"
  

• Suported Languages

For more tips and requirements click here

Links

• My final project for MakeSchool's BEW2.5: Patterns & Practices in Strongly Typed Languages - the only university that teaches Go
• MakeUtility Requirements
• My article: 5 Steps to Localizing your Swift Apps
• Added feature 2 and 3 during Make School's Spring Intensive 1.3
• Follow me at LinkedIn, GitHub and Portfolio

To have a customized version for your company standards, feel free to email me at samuelfolledo@gmail.com

Lincense under MIT License