SAP Translation Integration – SAP Cloud Platform SDK for iOS 3.0 SP01

For up-to-date information, please visit SAP Cloud Platform SDK for iOS documentation.

[Updated] : Blog content updated considering latest release of SAP Cloud Platform SDK for iOS 3.0 SP01 Assistant UX (You might have already read my colleague Andreas blog post on what’s new in latest SAP Cloud Platform SDK for iOS 3.0 SP01)

In today’s globalized digital economy, speaking the local language of customer is crucial for customer engagement and faster market adoption. SAP Translation Hub helps in doing so. SAP Translation Hub is one of the services available in SAP Cloud Platform. Read here for more information

Since SAP Cloud Platform SDK for iOS 2.0 release, a new translation capability has been added in Assistant tool (a native MacOS app)

In this blog i will be showing to you that how easily you can add translation to an existing Xcode project created in Assistant Tool and its very simple to get native iOS apps translated.

(below steps have been performed using XCode 10.1 and iOS SDK 3.0 SP01, here is the XCode project reference created using SAP Cloud Platform SDK for iOS Assistant)

Steps:

Let’s setup Translation Hub account in Assistant Tool:

Here, you need to provide Base URL of Translation Hub. (Since release of SDK 2.0 SP01, you only need base URL in order to connect to SAP Cloud Platform translation hub service from SDK assistant)

https://saptranslation-<your_trial_account_user>trial.hanatrial.ondemand.com

You can choose either Basic or SAML authentication .

2. In Assistant, click on All Projects as highlighted

3. Select an existing Project, select “Translate” option

4. Select the SAP Translation Hub account you added in step#1 then click on “Next”

5. Create a new SAP Translation Hub project by clicking on “Add new” option

6. Select Language(s) you want to add translation for in your Xcode project (these list of languages/options coming directly from Translation Hub)

Enter a project name
Select the Domain (business domain) for your project
Select Language(s)

7. Click on “Save” and then click on “Translate”

Also, with new version of translation Hub, we can now list existing translation hub projects in SDK Assistant, so apart from “Create” scenario which creates new Translation Hub project, there is also “Reuse” option to select existing project. Once you select this, you will notice that “Domain” is pre-filled, no editable, also “Language” table also get pre-filled with languages project has already been translated to. You can add or go with it.

I selected German (de) option, click on “Add” ,

Assistant is exporting some localizable strings from Xcode project into xliff file(s), these files are uploading to Translation Hub account for translation, these files are translated there, translation get send back to Assistant and then assistant will import translated files into Xcode project automatically.

8. Before launching app in simulator, change device/simulator language to German

(Settings > General > Language Region )

9. Re-run the project