Mobile Application Localization

Our professional project managers study and analyze the client’s request and the mobile application functionality to understand the subject matter, target language(s) and select the most suitable linguistic team for the project.

The dedicated project manager confirms the project scope and the target language(s) and locale(s) with the client to be aware of the ideal completion deadline, the format of the translated content, the approved terminology, and style guide to follow.

One of the first and most fundamental steps of mobile application localization process is to get all the text and images/graphics in the application translated and localized into the target language(s). This is usually done using an XML or XLIFF (XML Localization Interchange File Format) file, which includes all of the text strings in the mobile application so that they can easily be translated into other languages.

IntlSight project manager prepares a quote with the assistance of our experienced Localization Engineers and estimates the turnaround time.

After sharing the quotation with the client and getting an approval on the cost, project scope and turnaround time, the project manager kicks off the project for translation.

Translations are performed by a base translation team and edited and proofread by a second linguistic team with higher experience. All translations are completed by human translators, using translation memory (TM) technologies and QA tools to ensure an efficient and consistent translation.

After TEP step is completed, we assure the translation quality by running different QA tools to check translation consistency, terminology consistency, punctuation, forgotten translations, numbering, …etc.

After getting the software text translated into the target language(s), IntlSight’s engineering team imports the translated text into the application and conduct any required engineering tasks like layout flipping (for BiDirectional languages), images localization, cultural adaptation for non-text content, …etc.

Functional testing is conducted by our testing engineers on different devices to ensure the localized application works just the same as the source version and that it functions properly. Linguistic teams test the localized application from the linguistic prospective and verify the translation is complete and consistent across the application.

It makes a very good sense to have the application related store (App Store and Google Play) content translated into the target language(s). The store content is extracted for translation (either by IntlSight’s engineering team or provided by the customer) to be translated into the target language(s).

IntlSight project manager shares a draft version of the localized mobile application with the customer to approve the translation and provide any feedback or comments.

The linguistic team reviews and implements the customer feedback and the engineering team prepares the final version to deliver to the client.

Project manager delivers the final localized and QA’ed mobile application to the client and engineering team updates the Translation Memories to make use of the already translated content in future projects.