Poeditor Android Gradle Plugin

Simple plugin that eases importing PoEditor localized strings to your Android project.

What is PoEditor? Check it out

Download

In your main build.gradle, buildscript block, add jitpack.io to the repositories and include the plugin as a dependency:

buildscript {
    repositories { 
        maven { url 'https://jitpack.io' }
        ...
    }
    dependencies {
        ...
        classpath 'com.github.bq:poeditor-android-gradle-plugin:0.2.5'
}

Enjoy!

Configuration

Apply and configure the plugin to your app's module build.gradle file.

apply plugin: 'com.bq.poeditor'

poEditorPlugin.api_token = <poeditor_api_token>
poEditorPlugin.project_id = <poeditor_project_id> 
poEditorPlugin.default_lang = "en"
poEditorPlugin.res_dir_path = "${project.rootDir}/app/src/main/res"

The complete attribute list:

Attribute	Description
api_token	Poeditor API Token.
project_id	Poeditor project ID.
default_lang	The lang to be used to build default strings.xml (/values folder)
res_dir_path	The path to the project's /res folder.

If you want to customize another property open a PR or leave a comment!

Usage

Just run the new importPoEditorStrings task via Android Studio or command line:

./gradlew importPoEditorStrings

This task will:

• download all strings files (every available lang) from PoEditor given the api token and project id.
• process the incoming strings to fix some PoEditor incompatibilities with Android strings system.
• create and save strings.xml files to /values-<lang> (or /values in case of the default lang). It supports region specific languages by creating the proper folders (i.e. /values-es-rMX).

Handle Tablet specific strings

You can mark some strings as tablet specific strings by adding _tabletsuffix to the string key in PoEditor. The plugin will extract tablet strings to its own XML and save it in values-<lang>-sw600dp.

Therefore you could define:

Poeditor Strings

welcome_message: Hey friend and welcome_message_tablet: Hey friend how are you doing today, you look great!

The plugin will create two strings.xml:

/values/strings.xml

<string name="welcome_message">Hey friend</string>

/values-sw600dp/strings.xml

<string name="welcome_message">Hey friend how are you doing today, you look great!</string>

Handle placeholders

You can add placeholders to your strings. We've defined a placeholder markup to use in PoEditor string definition; it uses {{value}}:

PoEditor string:

welcome_message: Hey {{user_name}} how are you

will become, in strings.xml

<string name="welcome_message">Hey %1%s how are you</string>

If you need more than one placeholder in the same string, you can use ordinals:

PoEditor string:

welcome_message: Hey {1{user_name}} how are you, today offer is {2{current_offer}}

will become, in strings.xml

<string name="welcome_message">Hey %1%s how are you, today offer is %2%s</string>

This way you could change the order of the placeholders depending on the language:

PoEditor string with spanish translation:

welcome_message: La oferta del día es {2{current_offer}} para ti, {1{user_name}}

will become, in values-es/strings.xml

<string name="welcome_message">La oferta del día es %2%s para ti, %1%s</string>

To-Do

• Change placeholder system to avoid using ordinals by taking into account the placeholder value instead.

License

This project is licensed under the Apache Software License, Version 2.0.

Copyright (c) 2016 bq

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you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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