Multiple Localizable.strings files in one iOS app

Question

Is it possible to have multiple components that have their separate localizations in an app?

For example I want to localize strings in my app but also use ShareKit which is localized itself (so my bundle will contain 2 Localizable.strings in different locations). So, ShareKit contains folders like en.lproj and de.lproj that contain Localizable.strings files and I want to create the same for the rest of my project but keep them separate.

I have tried just keeping them separate and that resulted in the strings of my app not being used. Any ideas?

Answer 1

There is a way to do this that is quite simple.

There are several macros for localizing, one of which is NSLocalizedStringFromTable(). This takes three parameters:

1. The string to localize
2. The table name, which is just a file name
3. The comment, just like in NSLocalizedString()

If you use a table name then you can have another strings file, i.e. if I do NSLocalizedStringFromTable(@"name", @"MyStrings", @"whatever"); then put my strings in MyStrings.strings it will use that.

See Matt Gallagher's post about this.