Localization

This is long overdue, but I've added international language support to Boost Blue for all menu items, buttons, and general text. This is starting with support for 20 languages:

  • Arabic                                

  • German

  • English

  • Spanish

  • French

  • Hindi

  • Indonesian

  • Italian

  • Japanese

  • Korean

  • Dutch

  • Polish

  • Portuguese

  • Russian

  • Swedish

  • Thai

  • Turkish

  • Ukrainian

  • Chinese (Simplified)

  • Chinese (Traditional)

I chose the initial languages to support based on published data on language usage, and I'll be continuing to add more. If there is a language you would like support for, just ask! That will move it immediately to the top of the list. I'm also open to adding regional versions based on feedback.

The app will default to using your on device language setting, but you can also override that in Settings.

The translations here were done entirely by Google Translate, so it's likely that some are incorrect. Unfortunately, it isn't realistic for me to pay someone to translate the entire app by hand. If you see something that is incorrect, let me know and I'll get it fixed.

Feedback and bugs

I've also been continuing to work through responses to my post soliciting feedback on the app. Fixed in this version:

  • Added a UI indicator when a quoted post was removed by the author

  • Completely new image gallery UX**

  • Sports tab now shows up for everyone

  • standard.site embeds are correctly detected

**New image gallery: When I started building Boost Blue, I used a package for the image gallery (for non-techies: someone else's open source code). It saved me time up front, but it's been a consistent UX problem. I finally bit the bullet and just built my own. It might have its own issues, but fixing them will be fully in my control.


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