How to include specific .txt-file in transifex-bot?

[stefan-niedermann]

Hey @MorrisJobke,

here another request: I want to add some kind of description about how to use markdown for the Notes app (nextcloud/notes-android#116).

I could store the text in the strings.xml-file and it would be translated by transifex. But i do not really want to do that for clarity reasons. Ideal for me was if i could simply place a plain .md- or .txt-file inside of the android assets-folder (similar to #198).

• Would this kind of file be respected by the transifex-bot yet?
• If not, can you add support for something like this? Or do you have any other idea about how / where to store such a property?

cc @tobiasKaminsky

[tobiasKaminsky]

We could extend generate_metadata.py to also translate this file, but then it is just like everything else in Transifex…

[stefan-niedermann]

After some research i think the raw folder (which is localized analog to strings) is the "android-way" to put localized .txt-files in an android app.

but then it is just like everything else in Transifex…

But this is exactly what i want to achieve - everything in raw should go to transifex, get translated there and getting pushed back to my repository.

As far as i understood, the generate-metadata script is only processing the already translated files which are yield from transifex.

So what i need in the first place, would be that raw-values are pushed to transifex in the first place.

[tobiasKaminsky]

So what i need in the first place, would be that raw-values are pushed to transifex in the first place.

This is possible, but as far as I know, it it would be for each file a new resource within nextcloud
(next to android-notes)

So something like

• androidNotes
• androidNotes-RawFile1
• androidNotes-RawFile2

[stefan-niedermann]

Okay, so now the topic is getting serious. I have a big text file in the raw directory of the Notes app which needs to get translated.

@tobiasKaminsky your proposal is fine for me and i don't expect further files to follow. If this is fine for you, i would like to ask you for some guidance how to set up this kind of job.

Of course i am always happy to hear alternative solutions. 🙂

[stefan-niedermann]

I solved it by moving all the stuff into my strings.xml...