🌍 Localization

Localization adds languages to your app and manages the translations for each one. Every piece of text Ada writes into your app becomes a key, and each language holds one translation per key.

The language list

One row per language, showing:

• The language code in capitals — EN, FR, PT-BR.
• A Default badge on the source language.
• Coverage — how many keys are translated, as 18/24 translated.

While a language is being translated the coverage is replaced by live progress — Translating 12/24… — with a spinner.

Adding a language

The field at the bottom takes a language code: fr, pt-BR, ja. Add, or Enter, adds it.

Adding a language starts a translation pass in the background. The row appears immediately and fills in as the pass runs, so you can keep working.

Removing a language

The bin icon on a row removes that language.

The default language has no bin — it is the source everything else is translated from.

A language that is mid-translation cannot be removed either, and the icon is disabled with a tooltip saying so. Deleting a file the translator is part-way through writing would only bring it back on the next batch.

Edit translations

Edit translations opens the full table: every key as a row, every language as a column, so you can read a string and all of its translations side by side.

This is the place to fix a translation you disagree with, or to fill in a key that was added after a language was created.

Tip

You can also edit a single string from the element editor in Screens. Selecting an element in a multi-language app edits the current language’s translation, and the editor says which one — for example Editing the FR translation.