This is applicable to almost any piece of software with text in it. When starting your new app, you should make sure you are using a separate language file for the strings in your app. This makes text reusable, and you can change it all in one place.
Once your app gains a community, if you did this, you can also get translators!
With Photon i made the massive mistake of hardcoding everything up until the app became massive, and my PR for un-hardcoding all the strings looks like this:
It was worth it though! Because the community has translated it into 11 languages!
Not necessarily. You have to be able to tell between language strings vs strings that are supposed to be hardcoded
Ok, that’s fair. I’d probably add a
# FIXXMEflag when I don’t want to mess around with that stuff for the moment to do that.