Localizing Info.plist variable with appended string

Question

I'm trying to localize the name of an app while still being able to append a string depending on the build configuration. So currently it is set up as:

<key>CFBundleDisplayName</key>
<string>${PRODUCT_NAME}${BUNDLE_DISPLAY_NAME_SUFFIX}</string>

That setting is defined as:

This way we can add the suffix to the app for our different beta builds. The problem is that when we try to localize the app display name in the localized InfoPlist.strings like so

CFBundleDisplayName = "Localized App Name";

We overwrite the value stored in the Info.plist, and lose the suffix character. Is there any good way around this? We would like to avoid having multiple Info.plist files.

Answer 1

You will need a custom script to do this. Here is one that is working for me

PREFIX_IDENTIFIER="=com.mycompany.bundlenameprefix="
PREFIX=""

if [ $CONFIGURATION == "Debug" ]
then
    PREFIX="α "
fi

if [ $CONFIGURATION == "Enterprise" ]
then
    PREFIX="β "
fi

for i in `dirname "${TARGET_BUILD_DIR}/${INFOPLIST_PATH}"`/*.lproj/InfoPlist.strings
do
    plutil -convert json "$i"
    sed -i -e "s/${PREFIX_IDENTIFIER}/${PREFIX}/g" "$i"
    plutil -convert binary1 "$i"
done

Then in your InfoPlist.strings add a prefix to the bundle name like so

CFBundleDisplayName = "=com.mycompany.bundlenameprefix=My App";