Language translation within the application

[graficosmorales]

Greetings everyone, I have put my application in a launch stage in the application stores. AppStore and Playstore, packaged with BDK.

In the next stages of construction I require that the app be able to translate the text into different languages.

What do you recommend I do?
What plugin to use?
What configuration to follow?

I will really appreciate it

[boston85719]

@graficosmorales

What do you recommend I do?

Translate the values and save the translated values to the database…can be done in a lot of different ways depending on your setup and use case.

[graficosmorales]

I appreciate your response!
Within my app I have spaces where users can create content, that is, they can put each new line of text, so I need a plugin (selection preference) where the user can choose in which language they want to see the app.

Algo como esto

[boston85719]

@graficosmorales

so I need a plugin (selection preference) where the user can choose in which language they want to see the app.

I don’t know of any that could do that. Also, if you were to be translating user generated content for every user who makes a choice to see it translated into another language of their preference that could cost a lot of money over time, as I am unaware of any free translation services. You may have luck searching the plugin marketplace, and maybe find something that does free translations.

Otherwise, you’d want to setup an API call either to google translate or openai to translate the text into the different languages you offer when the user creates and saves the content, then you also save the translations to the database.

[clossius.shawnray]

Bubble has a built in Language tool to do this. It’s in the settings/language tab

[boston85719]

@graficosmorales The built in Language tool in the settings/language tab is not setup for the purposes of translating user generated content. It is intended and only able to be used for static texts that are setup manually in the app editor and do not have any functionality available for running workflow actions to populate them with user generated content.

[boston85719]

@arthuribeiro

Although it’s nearly impossible to find any free translation API, there are publicly available free API routes - for example, from Google Translate. I’m not sure if these are leaked or unethical routes

Is there any site you use to see a list of these types of API routes?

[elarchi75]

Hello,
Please help me.
I can’t get my translated application to appear with the Google translate APi even though I’ve configured everything as described by Bubble and when I use a VPN to simulate that I’m in England for example, my application remains in French whereas I’d like it to be translated into English.

[clossius.shawnray]

This is just a note for future people who come by this post. One thing that I have done during development which should help me loads in the long run…

Whenever I create a word using the apptext so it can check translations, I know I will have to go through every spreadsheet every time I add new words or features. So I decide to only release them in English and then catch up the translations when I can. This means I am not editing the spreadsheet every single time I add a word.

So I did a .find&replace to make it english until I have time to get to the spread sheets. Apptext.find&replace (no translation) with text. Then when I do add the spreadsheet information it will all update at once without slowing down development time.