Are there any tools to convert an Iphone localized string file to a string resources file that can be used in Android?

Question

I have the localized strings file that is used in the Iphone app that I work on to port to Android. Are there any tools that go through the file taken from the xcode project and build the xml needed to use the strings in android?

As the apple file is a simple key value file is there a tool that converts string in this format

"key"="value"

to this:

<string name="key"> value </string>

This tool should be easy to build but I appreciate any pointers to already working tools.

Answer 1

you should be able to accomplish this with some XSLT magic...

Answer 2

This is one of the areas where the Unix mindset and toolset comes in handy. I don't know what the iPhone format is like, but if it's what you say, with each value one per line, a simple sed call could do this:

$ cat infile
"key"="value"
"key2"="value2"
$ sed 's/ *"\([^"]*\)" *= *"\([^"]*\)"/<string name="\1">\2<\/string>/' infile
<string name="key">value</string>
<string name="key2">value2</string>
$

I expect sed is available on your OSX install.

Answer 3

The "tool" I've used to convert a Java properties file:

    BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(
            new FileInputStream("c:/messages_en.properties"), "utf-8"));
    String line = null;
    while ((line = br.readLine()) != null) {
        line = line.trim();
        if (line.length() > 0) {
            String[] parts = line.split(" = ");
            System.out.println("<string name=\"" + parts[0] + "\">"
                    + parts[1] + "</string>");
        }
    }
    br.close();

Answer 4

Ok i wrote my own little converter using a little bit from the code from alex.

public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
    Scanner fileScanner =
            new Scanner(new FileInputStream(args[0]), "utf-16");
    Writer writer =
            new BufferedWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(new FileOutputStream(
                    new File(args[1])), "UTF8"));
    writer.append("<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\"?> <resources>");
    while (fileScanner.hasNextLine()) {
        String line = fileScanner.nextLine();
        if (line.contains("=")) {
            line = line.trim();
            line = line.replace("\"", "");
            line = line.replace(";", "");
            String[] parts = line.split("=");
            String nextLine =
                    "<string name=\"" + parts[0].trim() + "\">"
                            + parts[1].trim() + "</string>";
            System.out.println(nextLine);
            writer.append(nextLine);
        }
    }
    fileScanner.close();
    writer.append("</resources>");
    writer.close();
}

It was a little bit tricky to get Java to correctly read and write the UTF 16 input I got out of the xcode project but now it is working like a charm.