Re: Übersetzung von Android

Michael Bauer schrieb:
> The short answer is sadly no. I've been looking into this for years myself for Gaelic. There is a 
> translation infrastructure of course but unless Google specifically wants a language there, it's not 
> going to end up on devices. And talking to Google is, well, not a fruitful exercise, trust me...

Hi Michael,

I feared that. But, I tried to ask because I hope Google will decide after all to come into the 21st 
century.

> 
> The only approach that may work (now that B2G and Ubuntu Mobile are dead) is to find an Android 
> distro that is open to localization into languages that Google doesn't give a hoot about. A few 
> years ago, that was CyanogenMod and because there were a few manufactures who had this distro on 
> their handsets (Wileyfox for example) for a while I had a Gaelic Android phone because our 
> translations did end up in the builds. But then of course Cyanogen folded ... the successor project 
> is LineageOS and we're working on the localization again (https://crowdin.com/project/lineageos) but 
> at the moment, this OS is not on any device as a default OS so you'd have to get a compatible phone 
> and flash Lineage over the stock Android. Which is doable but not practical for most end users.

Well, perhaps I will translate LinageOS. But, you are right, the target audience of LineageOS will 
be small then, and there will be very few Sorbian users who will use it. Maybe there will be some 
enthusiast who badly want to have an OS in Sorbian language. But my tenor is to improve the 
situation for software in the Sorbian languages. Also such "small" languages should have software to 
meet the requirements of the modern life.
> 

> One word of advice - make frequent backups if you start doing Sorbian. When Cyanogen went down over 
> night, we hadn't done a backup in ages and lost most of the translations.

Thank you, Michael I will do that if I really will translate LineageOS.


Regards,

Michael