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Crowdin integrates with Azure Repos to help you release multilingual versions of your product faster. Sync content between Crowdin and your source code to integrate localization into the development cycle. Localize feature branches separately from the master branch, while they are still in development. Translators will immediately get notified of the new content to be translated. Files with ready translations will be pushed as pull requests to the l10n branch in Azure Repos repository. Ready to be merged.

The key idea behind developing Crowdin Mobile SDK was to help you make the apps you build accessible to global customers faster, keeping your data secure, and ensuring the high quality of translation. Hence, Over-the-Air Content Delivery allows you to update the translated strings of the iOS and Android apps instantly. Without submitting a new app version on the App Store or Google Play each time new translations arrive. Along with CDN, Crowdin Mobile SDK allows you to set up two additional features. Both Screenshots and Real-Time Preview are not aimed at your end-users but will help to give translators functional and visual context. Learn how you can integrate SDK extras in your app localization workflow and get better translations.

Make translations of your app accessible to your users in a click with Crowdin Over-the-Air Content Delivery for mobile apps. No need to release a new version of the app on the App Store or Google Play each time you want to publish new translations. Install Crowdin SDK on your app and deliver ready translations from your Crowdin project immediately. Two additional features will help to upload screenshots automatically and preview translations in the app in real-time.

As a member of the GitHub Student Developer Pack, we are always happy to see student projects becoming multilingual with Crowdin. That’s why we’re running a contest together with GitHub Education starting December 2 until December 27, 2019. The most active student using Crowdin for project localization receives a 100$ gift card (for App Store & iTunes or Google Play) + our cool swag. Some of the best student projects get a chance to be featured in the GitHub Student Gallery

Crowdin joins the GitHub Student Developer Pack program to help students build software that speaks different languages. If you are a student enrolled in the Pack program, you will get a free annual subscription to Crowdin Bronze plan. Your project is open-source? Request an open-source license and use Crowdin for free forever. We love open-source philosophy and support young professionals that seek real-world experience in software localization.

Being a developer you understand that to grow you need to be always learning, whether from books, visiting conferences, or reading articles like this one. Among the new essential skills, you should be acquiring right now is rightfully placed the ability to build software that supports localization.

Wonderful news to welcome: up from now Crowdin is even more accessible to internationalization and localization! We implemented the best ICU syntax support on the market, considerably mature localization tool, which can advance high-quality translations for your projects. Just check it out! Since target texts get modified in terms of its gender and plural forms, number, time, and date, ICU Syntax provides better support for mentioned features to express all the necessary spelling and grammar details. Hence, it is a paramount element, which standardizes subtleties of the string although tends to perplex inexperienced translators. Therefore, string localization is more challenging than ever. Crowdin recognizes ICU formats and with a help of really handy Pre-view option makes it possible to observe different variations. Syntax is also highlighted so it is very convenient to keep required areas within the sight and manage translations swiftly! It let translators minimize mistakes, review defined message structure, and quality of the ultimate translation outcome.  We did our best to come up with ICU syntax support and are really happy to share this amazing thing with our users! Select, Plural, Number, Date and Time formats are on hand to test and smooth away any issue one could have before.

Get to know how to: - Сrowdsource translations for Android - Avoid potential pitfalls - Prepare your App for localization process - Choose localization technology - Find crowd translators - Motivate translators - …and more Crowdsourcing supposed to be a powerful method for Android localization. Except - how often does that happen? Developers choose crowdsourcing mainly because it sounds perfect to get translations for free. But the lack of awareness about all the crowdsourcing aspects leads to fail. This whitepaper will help you to be aware and avoid potential challenges. It will be your guide through crowdsourcing whys and hows for Android apps so you can be prepared for the ups and downs it may bring. This 14-pages whitepaper covers: - Crowdsourced localization overview - Steps toward applying crowdsourced translations in the Android app localization process <ActionBanner title="Whitepaper: Hows and Whys of Crowdsourced Translation for Android App Localization" buttonUrl="https://downloads.crowdin.com/docs/android-crowdsourcing.pdf" buttonText="Check Out" />