Xamarincommunitytoolkit: Add Multilingual Support to the Sample App

[Char0394]

Summary

Right now the app is hardcoding the strings in the code, we should move that to an AppResource file and read the strings from there.

API Changes

• Add a new AppResource file and move the strings

NOTE: I can add the Spanish translations and some of the community members can help us with other languages.

[almirvuk]

Great idea! I can add the Bosnian language 😄

[Rabosa616]

I can add Catalan language

[AbuMandour]

I can Add Arabic language so we can support "RTL", what do you think?

[Char0394]

@jfversluis @sthewissen @AndreiMisiukevich @Depechie @all since all the strings are in a Resource file already. How we will handle this? Open a new issue for each language support, or they can just go for it add the language Resource and submit the PR?

Looks like we have:

• Spanish
• Arabic
• Bosnian
• Catalan
• Russian
• Portuguese

PDT:
I still have pending to add the code to change the language.

[AndreiMisiukevich]

Well, I can add Russian

[Depechie]

I would indeed suggest a PR per language... and for this first doing a suggest seems overkill? Only problem of course if 2 people do the work at the same time without knowing?
To handle that, we could do issues per language and assign it to people who want to pick it up?

[Char0394]

Sounds good @Depechie

[jfversluis]

Yep that sounds like a good approach. Do we also have something in the sample app to actually switch languages apart from the users configured one on the device? That might be a separate issue then

[Char0394]

Actually I was thinking to add the feature of changing the language in Runtime as part of the library using this approach -> https://devblogs.microsoft.com/xamarin/mastering-multilingual-in-xamarin-forms/
And add the ability to change the language in the Sample.
What do you guys think?

[jfversluis]

That was exactly what I mean! :)

[Char0394]

So, can I go for it? :P

[jfversluis]

Fine by me!

[felipebaltazar]

I can add Pt-Br

[LucioMSP]

I can help with the Spanish version

[jfversluis]

@Char0394 did you make any progress with this? I guess it also starts to make sense to maybe have issues for the different languages so we can assign individuals to that

[Char0394]

@jfversluis yes, sorry for the delay, I'll submit a PR soon.

[jfversluis]

No worries! I didn't mean to say you should hurry up. Just checking :)

Great news!

[Char0394]

Anyone interesting in helping with this please leave a comment here https://github.com/xamarin/XamarinCommunityToolkit/issues/225 with the language you want to add.