Bugs of locale support in Android

Toni Hermoso Pulido

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Jan 4, 2012, 2:18:51 PM1/4/12

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Hello all,

sorry if this was already commented before. After this bug is closed:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=576797

does anyone know the list of all (or most relevant) bugs to make new
Android interface available for all locales that actually translate it.

Thanks in advance,
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Axel Hecht

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Jan 4, 2012, 5:29:15 PM1/4/12

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On 04.01.12 20:18, Toni Hermoso Pulido wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> sorry if this was already commented before. After this bug is closed:
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=576797
>
> does anyone know the list of all (or most relevant) bugs to make new
> Android interface available for all locales that actually translate it.
>
> Thanks in advance,

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=698425 is the bug to create
single-locale builds for release.

Axel

Toni Hermoso Pulido

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Jan 5, 2012, 5:02:37 AM1/5/12

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Al 04/01/12 23:29, En/na Axel Hecht ha escrit:

Hi Axel,

I just discovered this recent post from Francesco:
http://www.yetanothertechblog.com/2011/12/26/native-localized-android-build/#comments

Sorry for not being able to follow all the context behind that bug.

In conclusion…
what are we supposed to get for Firefox Mobile 11?
Single builds for all locales? Only for a few ones?
Market is going to offer single locales? Only a multi-locale build as
nowadays?

Alternately, are langpacks, if they are possible, going to be available
from anywhere?

Thanks for helping clarifying a bit all this,

Axel Hecht

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Jan 5, 2012, 7:10:53 AM1/5/12

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So, here's the plan:

For the Android and Amazon market, ship what we can. The Amazon market
only seems to support a single apk per app, so that's gonna be the
multi-locale one. For the Android market, we can have multiple apks for
devices and locales, and we want single-locale apks for that.
We also want to have a page where you can download builds off the web,
updated by Mozilla instead of the markets. Those would be the channel to
get Firefox to users in languages not supported by the markets.

Android doesn't have anything like language packs for the native UI l10n
infrastructure, so those are off the table.

Axel

Toni Hermoso Pulido

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Jan 5, 2012, 9:34:27 AM1/5/12

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Al 05/01/12 13:10, En/na Axel Hecht ha escrit:

Thanks Axel,

for the case of builds in Mozilla website, I assume they will receive
automatic updates with new versions as well, won't they?

Hasse

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Jan 5, 2012, 10:08:44 AM1/5/12

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In article <_r2dnS25i9DTDpjS...@mozilla.org>, Axel Hecht
wrote...

>
> So, here's the plan:
>
> For the Android and Amazon market, ship what we can. The Amazon market
> only seems to support a single apk per app, so that's gonna be the
> multi-locale one. For the Android market, we can have multiple apks for
> devices and locales, and we want single-locale apks for that.
> We also want to have a page where you can download builds off the web,
> updated by Mozilla instead of the markets. Those would be the channel to
> get Firefox to users in languages not supported by the markets.

What does the plan mean for those locales that up to now has been
rejected, like Swedish?
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=626023

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Hasse
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Axel Hecht

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Jan 5, 2012, 2:30:28 PM1/5/12

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Yes, they will.

Technical jargon: The plan is to do "repacks" of the market builds and
give the builds we do a separate update channel that AUS then serves
updates to, just like for fx.

Axel

Axel Hecht

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Jan 5, 2012, 2:29:11 PM1/5/12

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Once we're having builds, bugs like this need to be re-raised to our
attention, so that we can start working on shipping an actually really
localized release. If it had RTL, hopefully soon those, too.

Axel