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Andolasoft Is Recognized Again As The Best Mobile Application Development Company Globally

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Mobile apps not only allow you to reach your targeted audience in a synchronized manner, but it also enables you to expand your user base and your business horizon.

Mobile devices have become an important part of our life. On average two-thirds of the world’s population is connected to mobile devices. There are more than 5 billion unique mobile subscribers. They depend on mobile applications for everything starting from shopping, playing, scheduling appointments, ordering food, getting a ride, and many more. Therefore, mobile application development has become an important sector in the technical industry.

At AndolaSoft Inc., we help our clients to monetize their business ideas through interactive mobile apps and be a cut above the rest of their competitors.

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Our profound work ethics have propelled us to develop path-breaking mobile apps that TopDevelopers.co in their recent “press release about the leading mobile app development companies“ have acknowledged our work and included us in the list of leading mobile app development companies.

TopDevelopers.co is a reputed research and review platform for B2B IT Service providers.

Mobile apps have become an indispensable part of our daily life over the past few decades. Thus, organizations around the world are looking to cash on this opportunity and are exceedingly going digital in their business approach.

Why do we Get Involved in Mobile App Development?

We started with the invention and innovation of developing mobile applications as mobile applications for business are important for growth. Therefore, we plan to develop a mobile application development business with adequate strategy, cost, effort, and the right marketing campaigns.

 However, here are some major points that inspired us in developing a mobile application business:

  • The persuasion of designing something new and fresh
  • With the opportunity to become relevant in the way, mobile technology was used.
  • App developers can work even from a remote place, all they require is strong access to an internet connection and a good SDK.

Why We Rank Well?

At Andolasoft, we deliver scalable and robust mobile app development solutions that create value for your product and help your business to win the trust of your targeted audience easily.

Our mobile application development company has successfully delivered their application with excellence in the app stores, as we spend a huge amount on building the application that fulfills all the demands, requirements, and all the client’s demands to deliver the desired results.

Our astute qualities are the reason why we are rated highly as one of the top mobile app development companies around the world.

Our expertise apart from mobile app development includes Web and Software Development, Cloud Computing, and UI/X Designing.

Our Ecommerce solutions are backed by extensive research and analysis to help our clients in providing enhanced customer experience to their users.

A few months back Andolasoft has announced as a Top E-commerce Development Company by the same review platform.

This quality of Andolasoft has reserved a place among the efficient eCommerce developers in the industry.

Andolasoft Inc. began working in the year 2009 and in the last 13 years, we have provided our services to companies hailing from different industry backgrounds such as healthcare and life science, IT, business services, real estate, utilities, and many more.

Our focuses are on bridging the gap between technology and the business to bring in the transformation that helps our clients with increased ROI.

Our portfolio is the right place to analyze how efficient are we in solving our clients’ complex business issues through technology.

We always concentrate on satisfying our clients to the core and that’s where we stand out from the rest.

Our team of experts is well-versed in analyzing the trend and offering solutions that make a remarkable change in the business growth of the clients who approached us.

Mobile App DevelopmentWe work hard to bring that smile of satisfaction to the faces of our clients and never hesitate to go that extra mile to bring extra value to the product that we develop.

And this has always been helping in making our name among the reliable firms with ever-increasing customer retention rates.

A few of our remarkable solutions:

Orangescrum

One of our brighter products Orangescrum helps our clients in strengthening their project management practices. Our SaaS-based management software enhances the task execution ability and the productivity of the team.

Orangescrum

In addition to it, Organgesrum is highly-secured software as it is cloud-based and easy to use for higher authorities like project managers even on a global level.

Moreover, it can be easily integrated with Google Drive, Dropbox, etc. so that the work can be saved in a single place and the process of communication can be done in a better way.

UserPanda

Our other product UserPanda. Be it performance tracking, or keeping reports understanding the needs of your users, UserPanda can act as a one-stop destination and allows the business organization to work smoothly without any kerfuffle.

Since business organizations can understand their customers in a better way, they can render more user-centric products and increase their customer engagement.

UserPanda helps you analyze the journey and the buying preferences of the customers by helping you make a more personalized marketing strategy.

This will not only help you expand your user base but at the same time will increase the customer retention rate.

Wakeupsales – Smart CRM Tool

We developed Wakeupsales CRM to eliminate all the sales-related drawbacks and discrepancies in the sales processes and help the businesses to concentrate on reaching their goals real quick and as planned.

Wakeupsales CRM

The features and functionality that we have developed are specially added to help businesses to deal with modern-day challenges effortlessly.

The sole aim of the solution is to offer businesses improved conversion rates, increased sales, hassle-free service or product delivery processes, and better lead management.

It is a complete solution that will fulfill all the sales-related expectations.

TopDevelopers.co provides us with a platform wherein we can provide a quick and synchronized overview of our work. Visit Andolasoft’s profile on TopDevelopers.co to understand more about our organization and how impressive our works are.

Who Is TopDevelopers.co?

TopDevelopers.co is a widely respected directory and review platform for B2B IT service providers. They take a neutral approach to analyzing the companies.

The team of analysts at TopDevelopers.co vets the companies through stringent parameters which ensure that only the most competitive firms, businesses, enterprises, and entrepreneurs are filtered through their process.

This helps the service seekers in getting a ready-to-use pool of companies from which they can choose the appropriate firm according to their needs.

Conclusion:

As more and more people are depending on mobile devices, these are expected to reach 4 billion by 2022. The increasing number of mobile device users is more than PCs. Around 70% of the total population use mobile applications and 80% of them do online booking, payments, and purchases from mobile application, irrespective of any type of industry, mobile applications for business helps in the growth and reach out to your targeted customers.

I’ve worked with the team at Andolasoft on multiple websites. They are professional, responsive, & easy to work with. I’ve had great experiences & would recommend their services to anyone.

Ruthie Miller, Sr. Mktg. Specialist

Salesforce, Houston, Texas

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And our developers keep these above things in mind and develop the application. As a leading mobile application development company, we have lots of experience in creating and designing mobile applications, which makes us one of the best mobile app development company.

If you are planning for your mobile app development, contact our experts. They will help you by developing your desired mobile application.

What’s New In Android L, Windows 8.1 And IOS 8

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As all the three major mobile players in smartphone categories  i.e. Apple, Google and Microsoft come up with their latest version of Operating Systems i.e. iOS 8, Android L & Windows 8.1 respectively. Let’s have a look how it is worthy for users to switch over the most-recent OS version based upon the new features.

Android L:-

  • Personalized unlocking features, which make your smartphone or tablet search for familiar Bluetooth’s gadgets, Wi-Fi networks, locations and even voice imprints to deactivate any lock screen protections, letting you jump straight into your phone when it knows you’re nearby. If the device can’t detect any of this metrics, anyone trying to use it will be presented with the standard lock screen.
  • Google is focusing on its stock android keyboard for Android 5.0 Lollipop for adding more personalized and scrapping the individual tiled keys.
  • There is one more exciting feature i.e. “Do Not Disturb mode”, which automatically deactivates all notifications and audio during set times, support for Bluetooth 4.1 and a completely redesigned audio back end with support for USB audio devices.
  • Also Android L is going to introduce 64-bit processor support and  improving battery life with Project Volta. Project Volta includes a new battery historian which will help users work out what a device was doing at any given point in a battery cycle to find out which apps are draining the most power.

Windows 8.1 :–

Microsoft has already rolled out windows 8.1 few months back. Some of the features that were added windows phone 8.1:

  • Cortana, which is very much similar to Siri in iOS device, act as your personal assistant. Cortana notebook features store things that you tell her about yourself and also keep tracks what you like and what you’d like done. It can access apps, set alarms, send messages to specific persons, post a Facebook status, add a tweet, search for something and a lot more.
  • The action center which is finally added, and here you can get all your notifications and other controls such as setting Bluetooth, and Wi-Fi.
  • Another interesting feature that added to windows 8.1 was Quiet Hours. Here You can set what time you want your phone to be “quiet,” shutting out noise or notifications coming from it.

There is some other new features like setting up your personal photos as the background on the said start screen, connects you to free Wi-Fi hotspots near you through Wi-Fi sense, transferring files from the internal memory and SD-card seamless through Storage Sence etc.

iOS 8:-

iOS 8 also launched with lots of new features and here I am going to share few of them:

  • iPhone has new feature “Send Last Location” which allows your iPhone (or iPad) to send its last-known location to Apple when the battery drains to a critical level. If you lost your device, it will help you to find the last location of your device even if it’s battery is completely drained.
  • You can now include photos when making notes, to-do lists and reminders in Apple’s iOS 8 notes app.
  • Now iPhone can identify the song due to Shazam integration in Siri. If you ask Siri, “What song is playing?”, it will cause her to listen to the ambient sound, using Shazam to identify music.
  • You can notice iOS 8 has new keyboard with a very smooth predictive type features, which suggests three words right above the keyboard.

I hope you liked this post. What you would like to prefer- Android L, iOS 8 or windows 8.1 and why. Please share your answer in the below comment section

Recommended Blog: Useful features of iOS 7

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How To Monetize IOS App Through Apple In-App Purchase Integration

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What Is In App Purchase?

Apple’s In-App purchase lets you the ability to sell items within your free or paid app which includes premium content, virtual goods, upgrade features and subscriptions. Apple takes 30% of the commission and you receive 70% of the purchase price.

Each purchase is associated with a product type. The product types are:

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    Consumable Products:

Consumables are In-App Purchases that must be purchased each time the user needs that item.

  • Non-Consumable Products:

Non-Consumables are In-App Purchases that only need to be purchased once by the user and are available to all devices registered to a user.

  • Auto-Renewable Subscriptions:

Auto-Renewable Subscriptions allow the user to purchase episodic content or access to dynamic digital content for a set duration time. At the end of each duration, the subscription will renew itself, until a user opts out.

  • Non-Renewable Subscriptions:

Non-Renewing Subscription allow the sale of services with a limited duration. Non-Renewing Subscriptions must be used for In-App Purchases that offer time-based access to static content.

  • Free Subscriptions:

Free Subscriptions are an extension of Auto-Renewable Subscriptions that permit the delivery of free subscription content to Newsstand-enabled applications.

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The Free Subscription In-App Purchase type is implemented in the same way as an Auto-Renewable Subscription, just without any charges to the user. Free Subscriptions do not have expiration, but the user can turn off the subscription at any time.

You can use any one of the above as best suit to your application.

For example, integrating InApp purchase for Non-consumable type product.

In Non-consumable products type, user has to pay only once. Then the content or items will be available to all the device against that user’s apple ID.

What To Do Before Integrating In App Purchase To Your Application?

  1. Connect to iTunes
  2. Then create an unique App ID for your application and enable in-app purchases for that.
  3. Update the app with created bundle ID and code signing in Xcode with corresponding provisioning profile.
  4. Create the app using the AppID you’ve registered. Then goto Manage Applications in iTunes Connect.
  5. Make sure you have set up the bank details for your app as it is necessary for supporting In-App purchase.
  6. Then Add a new non-consumable product for In-App purchase.
  7. Last step is to create a test user account using Manage Users option in iTunes connect page of your app.

Lets write the code

First include StoreKit Framework into the app.Then write the following code in ViewController.h file

#import <UIKit/UIKit.h>
#import <StoreKit/StoreKit.h>
 
@interface MyViewController : UIViewController
<SKProductsRequestDelegate,SKPaymentTransactionObserver>
 
{
 
}
-(IBAction)PurchaseButtonClicked:(id)sender;
 
- (void) completeTransaction: (SKPaymentTransaction *)transaction;
- (void) restoreTransaction: (SKPaymentTransaction *)transaction;
- (void) failedTransaction: (SKPaymentTransaction *)transaction;
 
@end 
Write the following code in ViewController.m file
-(IBAction)PurchaseButtonClicked:(id)sender {
    SKProductsRequest *request= [[SKProductsRequest alloc]
initWithProductIdentifiers: [NSSet setWithObject: @"your_product_ID"]];
    request.delegate = self;
    [request start];
}
- (void)productsRequest:(SKProductsRequest *)request didReceiveResponse:(SKProductsResponse *)response
{
   [[SKPaymentQueue defaultQueue] addTransactionObserver:self];
 
   NSArray *myProduct = response.products;
   NSLog(@"%@",[[myProduct objectAtIndex:0] productIdentifier]);
 
   //Since only one product, we do not need to choose from the array. Proceed directly to payment.
 
   SKPayment *newPayment = [SKPayment paymentWithProduct:[myProduct objectAtIndex:0]];
   [[SKPaymentQueue defaultQueue] addPayment:newPayment];
 
   [request autorelease];
}
 
- (void)paymentQueue:(SKPaymentQueue *)queue updatedTransactions:(NSArray *)transactions
{
 for (SKPaymentTransaction *transaction in transactions)
   {
      switch (transaction.transactionState)
      {
         case SKPaymentTransactionStatePurchased:
              [self completeTransaction:transaction];
              break;
         case SKPaymentTransactionStateFailed:
              [self failedTransaction:transaction];
              break;
         case SKPaymentTransactionStateRestored:
              [self restoreTransaction:transaction];
         default:
              break;
      }
    }
} 
 
- (void) completeTransaction: (SKPaymentTransaction *)transaction
{
    NSLog(@"Transaction Completed");
    // You can create a method to record the transaction.
    // [self recordTransaction: transaction];
    // You should make the update to your app based on what was purchased and inform user.
    // [self provideContent: transaction.payment.productIdentifier];
    // Finally, remove the transaction from the payment queue.
    [[SKPaymentQueue defaultQueue] finishTransaction: transaction];
}
 
- (void) restoreTransaction: (SKPaymentTransaction *)transaction
{
    NSLog(@"Transaction Restored");
    // You can create a method to record the transaction.
    // [self recordTransaction: transaction];
    // You should make the update to your app based on what was purchased and inform user.
    // [self provideContent: transaction.payment.productIdentifier];
    // Finally, remove the transaction from the payment queue.
    [[SKPaymentQueue defaultQueue] finishTransaction: transaction];
}
 
- (void) failedTransaction: (SKPaymentTransaction *)transaction
{
    [activityIndicator stopAnimating];
    if (transaction.error.code != SKErrorPaymentCancelled)
    {
      // Display an error here.
      UIAlertView *alert = [[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:@"Purchase Unsuccessful"
      message:@"Your purchase failed. Please try again."
      delegate:self
      cancelButtonTitle:@"OK"
      otherButtonTitles:nil];
      [alert show];
      [alert release];
     }
 
    // Finally, remove the transaction from the payment queue.
    [[SKPaymentQueue defaultQueue] finishTransaction: transaction];
}

That’s it, now your app is integrated with the inApp purchase with non-consumable subscription.

Note: Please review Apple Guidelines (https://developer.apple.com/appstore/resources/approval/guidelines.html) before publishing the app to the app store.

Andolasoft has expertise in iOS application development and other iOS integration.

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How To Create A Static Library Or Framework For IOS?

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A static library is a package of classes, functions, definitions and resources, which can be packed together and easily shared among projects. This facilitates reuse of code easier as you will have your own set of classes and utility functions.

Here are the steps to create your static library or framework

Step 1 : Create A New ‘Cocoa Touch Static Library’ Project

  • Choose template as Cocoa Touch Static Library.
  • Start with create new project >> iOS >> Framework & Library >> Cocoa Touch Static Library

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Note: The name you entered in product field will be the name of your framework.
Example:  ‘MyCompany’ will generate ‘MyCompany.framework’

Step 2: Create The Primary Framework Header (Recommended)

Usually, framework header is imported this way – <MyCompany/MyCompany.h>

  • Create an ‘.h’ file – ‘MyCompany.h’
  • If X-Code creates it for you, just delete the ‘.m’ file and import the inner classes used in ‘.h’ file
  • If you import only ‘MyCompany.h’ (#import <MyCompany/MyCompany.h>) then the rest of the files need not be imported
#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>
  • Now, add your new sources
  • Make the header ‘Public’

Public headers are copied to the .framework and can be imported using the framework

  • Select the header in the project explorer, then expand the Utilities pane (Cmd+Option+0) to modify the scope of header.
  • In the ‘Target Membership’ group select the checkbox next to the ‘.h’ file.
  • Then, change the scope of the header from ‘Project’ to ‘Public’.

You might have to uncheck and check the box to get the dropdown list. This will ensure that the header is copied to the correct location in the copy headers phase.

Step 3: Update The Public Headers Location

  • To avoid copying private headers to the framework check that the public headers are copied to a separate directory, e.g. $(PROJECT_NAME)Headers.
  • Select the project in the file explorer >> select the targets >> ‘Build Settings’ tab.
  • Set ‘Public Headers Folder Path’ to ‘$(PROJECT_NAME)Headers’ for all configurations by searching the ‘Public Headers Folder Path’. This folder must be unique if you are working with multiple Frameworks.

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Step 4: Setup ‘Build Settings’

"Dead Code Stripping" => No (for all settings)
"Strip Debug Symbols During Copy" => No (for all settings)
"Strip Style" => Non-Global Symbols (for all settings)

Step 5: Make Sure That Framework Is Used As Dependent Target

  • Generate the basic skeleton of the framework in the static library target. Also include a simple post-build script.
  • Select your target in the file navigator and click the ‘Build Phases’ tab
  • Then, click ‘Add Build Phase’ >> ‘Add Run Script’ and paste the following script in the source portion of the run script build phase.
set–e
mkdir -p "${BUILT_PRODUCTS_DIR}/${PRODUCT_NAME}.framework/Versions/A/Headers"
# Link the "Current" version to "A"
/bin/ln -sfh A "${BUILT_PRODUCTS_DIR}/${PRODUCT_NAME}.framework/Versions/Current"
/bin/ln -sfh Versions/Current/Headers "${BUILT_PRODUCTS_DIR}/${PRODUCT_NAME}.framework/Headers"
/bin/ln -sfh "Versions/Current/${PRODUCT_NAME}" "${BUILT_PRODUCTS_DIR}/${PRODUCT_NAME}.framework/${PRODUCT_NAME}"
# The -a ensures that the headers maintain the source modification date so that we don't constantly
# cause propagating rebuilds of files that import these headers.
/bin/cp -a "${TARGET_BUILD_DIR}/${PUBLIC_HEADERS_FOLDER_PATH}/" "${BUILT_PRODUCTS_DIR}/${PRODUCT_NAME}.framework/Versions/A/Headers"
mycompany_xcode
  • Build your project

The build products directory is usually in-
(~/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/<ProjectName>-<gibberish>/Build/Products/…)

You will find the ‘libMyCompany.a’ static library, a headers folder, and a ‘MyComapny.framework’ folder which contains the basic skeleton of your framework.

build_product_directory

SEE ALSO: How to make Static Framework iOS device independent?

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How We Turned A Great Idea Into IOS App – The Inside Story

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Sandra M, an Occupational Therapist (OT) in the USA, came-up with the original idea and approached us to put it into iPhone app development as well as iPad app development. Here, the therapists share their expertise through the app thereby mentoring new parents through shared interventions.

The ‘LittleSteps’ iOS app is now in App Store. In a short span of time, hundreds of downloads have been done across the USA, Germany, Australia, India, Philippines, UK, China, Ireland, Portugal, Greece, Israel, South Africa, New Zealand, Chile, Egypt, Germany and Canada.

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The ‘LittleSteps’ App is aimed to collaborate and share OT interventions to address developmental delay in the areas of fine motor, gross motor, feeding, sensory integration, visual motor, behavior, language development and social skills for children below 3 yrs. With the free version a user can share interventions applied to other users. However, the paid version allows OT to store customer data in the device itself.

For Occupation Therapists, it provides a platform to share knowledge and take care of certain condition during baby’s growth. For parents, it acts as a companion that makes them knowledgeable on baby care.

Being one of the best iPhone App Development Companies, we came-up with the right solutions that turned Sandra’s idea into a working iOS app. We included numerous functionalities and integrations that made it engaging and simple for the users. We used Orangescrum, the project collaboration tool to keep-up with the development process.

See What Users Are Saying About The App?

  • “Very informative! Great app to download!”
  • “OMG, this is an exceptionally amazing app that has transformed the way we approach raising our babies. A must for all parents”

Here’s What We Did:

  • Designed the application logo, the user interfaces (UI/UX)
  • Developed the app in native language i.e. Objective-C and Cocoa Touch framework
  • Devised the application process and flow from navigation to monetization
  • Introduced the feature of In-app purchase for premium users
  • Introduced push notification feature to share texts instantly
  • Tested the app’s performance with AppFlight SDK
  • Deployed the app to Apple App Store within 9 weeks since the initiation of project

In addition to above mentioned functionalities, we have introduced numerous other features that make it a state-of-the-art application.

So, go ahead; download the app and see how ‘LittleSteps’ can help you and your baby. Feel free to write reviews in iTunes.

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How Do I Implement Localization In IOS Apps?

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We know that, all the apps in the Apple App Store are English-speaking, i.e. the menu, information, settings and everything else is in English. However, the apps become almost useless for the consumers from non native English speaking countries. Hence, it becomes essential for the developers to release apps with multiple language support. This is where internationalization and localization comes in handy which facilitates the iOS application developers to support numerous native languages that greatly increase the global user experience.

What Exactly Is Internationalization And Localization?

  • Internationalization and localization means adapting the software product to different languages, regional differences and technical requirements of a targeted market.
  • Internationalization is the process of designing a software application, so that it can be adapted to various languages and regions without engineering changes.
  • Localization is the process of accommodating internationalized software product for a specific region or language by adding locale-specific components and translating text.

Here Is An Example To Help You Grasp The Concept:

Let’s say there is an iPhone/iPad application made for Brazilian client and he needs to localize that product to Portuguese language so that every users of Brazil can use it.

Each and every application must contain some hardcoded strings. We need to pull all of these hardcoded strings into a separate file so that we can localize them.

To do this, create a “.strings” file in the Xcode to contain all of the strings that your project needs. Then the hardcoded strings should be replaced with a function call to look up the appropriate string from the “.strings” file based on the current language.

For example:

To create a “.string” file, follow below mentioned steps

  • Select the Project group in Xcode, and navigate to File >>New >>New File.
  • Choose iOS >>Resource >>Strings File, and click Next, as shown in the below snapshot.
  • Name the new file Localizable.strings, and then click Save.

Note that the “Localizable.strings” is the default filename; iOS looks for when dealing with localized text. If you rename the file, you’ll need to specify the name of the .strings file every time.

The format for the strings file is:

[sourcecode]"KEY" = "CONTENT";[/sourcecode]

For our ‘Account’ text add in:

[sourcecode]"TITLE" = "Account";[/sourcecode]

Now switch to “ViewController.m”, and find the “viewDidLoad” method. Now you can set the text as below:

[sourcecode]self.titleLabel.text = @"Account";[/sourcecode]

We want it to read from our “.strings” file. For this, you need to change the current line to use a macro called “NSLocalizedString” as shown below:

[sourcecode]self.titleLabel.text = NSLocalizedString(@"TITLE", nil);[/sourcecode]

Adding A Portuguese Localization

Steps to add a Portuguese localization are as follows:

  • You need to select “Localizable.strings”, and open the Info pane.
  • You can do this by selecting the 3rd tab in the top toolbar of the View section, and selecting the 1st tab in the top section, as shown in the below screenshot.

To add support for another language execute following steps:

  • You need to simply click on the ‘+’ (Plus) in that ‘Localization’ pane on the right of the view.
  • At first it will create localization for English.
  • If the “Localizable.Strings” deselect after your click then select the “Localizable.Strings” again. After the “Localizable.Strings” selected click the ‘+’ button once again and choose ‘Portuguese(pt)’ from the dropdown.

Now, Xcode has set up some directories containing a separate version of “Localizable.strings” for each language that you selected, behind the scenes. To view this for yourself, go to your project folder in Finder and open it. There you’ll get the following:

  • ‘en.lproj’ and ‘pt.lproj’ contain language-specific versions of files.
  • ‘en’ is the localization code for English, whereas ‘pt’ is for Portuguese.

To change the text for Portuguese, select ‘Localizable.strings (Portuguese)’ and change the text as follows:

[sourcecode]"TITLE" = "Conta";
“Back” = “Voltar”;
etc.
[/sourcecode]

It’s all about how to localize a string. But you also need to localize the UI, as the text length for a button may vary in different languages.

How To Adjust UI Elements:

Let’s discuss about how to localize the button text.

  • For Portuguese let’s say the button text is ‘MODIFICAR’.
  • The problem is that you need your button border to be relatively tight around the text. This isn’t a problem for title label because there is no constraint on its width, but here you’ll need to adjust the size of the button to make it look perfect.
  • If you simply change the text in “viewDidLoad” it will look odd, as the text of that button may or may not fit into it.

So you need to add localization to your “xib” and make the button bigger in Portuguese.

  • Go to “ViewController.xib” and in the info pane on the right of the view, click the ‘+’ button to add a Localization and choose Portuguese.
  • Note you may need to scroll down in the Info pane as it has some Interface Builder content in that side.
  • Now we have copy of “ViewController.xib” in our Portuguese folder (pt.lproj).
  • Select “ViewController.xib (Portuguese)”, and edit the button text in that version to say ‘MODIFICAR’.
  • It will resize the button by default.

Once, all the set up is done perfectly, delete the application from simulator/device and select Project>>Clean to get a fresh build and install. Then build and run your app.

How To Apply Localization For Images:

If you have text in your image you need to localize it.Follow the steps mentioned below.

  • Select the .jpg file and add localization for Portuguese.
  • Check out the project folder.
  • The ‘.jpg’ image file has been added to the English folder (en.lproj) and then copied to the Portuguse folder (pt.lproj).
  • To make a different image for the Portuguese version, you need to overwrite the image in the Portuguese folder.
  • Rebuild and get the final result!

Benefits:

It is better to have localization in your iOS apps to target the global users. The app will display the contents according to the visitor’s language.

  • Same information can be shared across the world.
  • Great user experience.