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Displaying Arabic Font

· 5 min read

When displaying text that is written right-to-left, this will sometimes have the behaviour of being displayed with the characters in the reverse order. This is because text is interpreted/rendered from left-to-right. This means that the simple solution is to start off by reversing the character order before rendering. E.g. if you want your right-to-left text to be displayed as ‘ABC’ then write it as ‘CBA’.

Translation Tool Tutorial

· 9 min read

Translations are typically implemented towards the end of a project. In this scenario, you have been developing the app and filling in default text in a single language to be translated at a future time. Now that time has arrived and the translator is standing by to fill in alternative values for whatever languages will be supported. The following tutorial will walk you through the recommended workflow for exporting a translation database file for the translator to fill in and re-importing it into the project to view the translations in the app.