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Internationalize Your iOS Apps for a Global Audience
Sixty percent of iPhone users worldwide aren’t native English speakers, half of the Top 10 iOS app markets are non-English speaking, and app revenue in Asia is soaring while North American growth is flattening. Internationalizing your apps will make your worldwide customer base happy and give you a powerful competitive advantage in the global marketplace. Now, iOS expert Shawn Larson brings together all the knowledge you need to do it.
Larson takes information previously scattered across dozens of blog posts, tutorials, and book chapters and integrates it into one easy-to-navigate resource. He presents step-by-step coverage and practical code for controlling international settings, character encoding, locale and localization, UI adjustments, App Store customizations, and more. You’ll find a sample project in every chapter—including a major three-chapter project guiding you through several key stages of app internationalization.
Coverage includes:
If you're an experienced Objective-C developer, iOS Internationalization will help you expand your iOS market worldwide and capture opportunities that would otherwise be far beyond your grasp.
All sample code and completed projects may be downloaded at github.com/ShawnLa-i18n.
iOS Internationalization: Characters and Encoding
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Introduction
Reader Expectations
How This Book Is Organized
Getting the Sample Code
Contacting the Author
1 International Settings
System Settings: International
Language
Voice Control
Keyboards
Calendars
Region Format
Representing Dates
Long Versus Short Date Formats
Representing Time
Telephone
Currency
Sorting
Measurements System
Decimal and Thousands Separators
Quotation Marks
Other Callouts
Summary
2 Characters and Encoding
Characters
Strings
Code Pages and Encoding
Unicode and Encoding
Encoding in Action
Coding Encoding
Objective-C Encoding Enumerations
Encoding Gone Bad
Diacritics
Surrogate Characters
Retrieving Characters from Unicode Code Points
Obtaining Unicode Code Points
Glyphs
Summary
3 Coding for Locale
NSLocale Class
Address Book Framework
NSNumberFormatter
NSDate
NSDateFormatter
NSCalendar
NSDateComponents
NSTimeZone
NSString
Summary
4 Prepping Your App for Localization
Building an International Exerciser
App Creation Overview
Home Screen
Measurement System
Quotes and Scripts
Calendar and Date Components
Date Formatting
Number Formatting
Contact Names/Address Book Framework
Strings
Other Locale-Specific Topics
Summary
5 Localizing Your App
Localization
Localizing a View Controller from the Sample App
Running Under the Localized Language
Working with Localized Images
Localizing App Icon Name
Other NSLocalizedString Macros
Creating a Generalized Key Name
genstrings Tools
Translating to Localized Languages
Word Order
Plural Forms and the CLDR
Summary
6 Adjusting the UI
Auto Layout and Constraints
Tools and Testing
UI Localization
Summary
7 Submitting Your App
App Submission Requirements
App Store Details
Localizing iTunes Connect Data
Apple Promotional Materials
Summary
A Case Study: Boom Beach
B Web Resources