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what is the purpose of using translatable in Android strings?

What is translatable attribute translatable="false" means?

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I don't see any reference to that in official docs, however, it probably is just an indicator for humans looking at the file that that particular string entity should not be translated.

If you have an Android app that you wish to internationalize, a common tactic is to just send your strings.xml file to translators. So that attribute would just be a flag for them.

Mayra  2010-10-13 15:37:43

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