Is it possible to update a localized storyboard's strings?

Question

I localized a part of my application with creating a base.lproj storyboard and 3 string files for it. It was a month ago and after that I added new view controller to app, b

Answer 1

This one is not for everybody, but it requires no additional tools in the terminal and it's easy for small manual changes. (Do not consider this when you want to automate your process.)

Step 0: Storyboard language setup

• Base (with english texts)
• English (localizable strings file does not exist because the base file is english)
• other languages (localizable strings files)

This step is done only once.

Now when I add something to the storyboard I do the following

Step 1: add the English localizable strings file

just mark the English line item.

This creates a completely new english localizable strings file with all the lines

Step 2: copy the new line items into the other language files

and translate them

Step 3: unmark English, remove the corresponding localizable strings file

the file was only needed to get the new line items

This is an easy and fast process, everything is done in the storyboard editor

Edit:

This process works very well with small storyboards. For example, I have a tabs based project and I have a storyboard for each tab.

Search for "storyboard reference" to find tutorials.

Good example: Storyboard reference in Xcode, where should we use it?

So each small storyboard only has a few strings to localize.