Crowdin SDK allows delivering new translations from the Crowdin Enterprise project to your application immediately. Using integration with Crowdin SDK, there will be no need to update the application in the App Store every time there is a new localization version.
The integration provides:
Requirements to integrate an iOS application with a project in Crowdin Enterprise:
Development Tool
App Programming Language
Operating System
Configure the distribution to mirror the translated content of your project and integrate with the iOS app. Read more about Distributions.
To configure iOS SDK integration, follow these steps:
To configure distribution, follow these steps:
To integrate SDK with your application, you need to enable Over-The-Air Content Delivery so that the application can pull translations from the CDN vault. For this, follow step-by-step instructions located in our GitHub repository.
This feature allows translators to see translations in the application in real-time. Managers and the QA team can also use it to preview translations before release.
Enable this feature if you want all the screenshots made in the application to be automatically sent to your Crowdin Enterprise project with tagged strings. This way, translators will have an additional context for the source strings.
Required for all features | |
your_distribution_hash | Unique hash, which you can get by going to Integrations > Content Delivery. To see the distribution hash, click ![]() |
localizations | Target languages of your Crowdin Enterprise project (e.g., ‘fr’, ‘el’). Format: osx_locale. |
source_language | Source language of your Crowdin Enterprise project (e.g., "en"). Format: osx_locale. |
Required for advanced features | |
client_id client_secret | Crowdin Enterprise authorization credentials. Open the project and go to Applications > System > iOS SDK. In the Advanced features section, click on the needed feature, and click Get Credentials. |
your_organization_domain | Domain name of your Organization in Crowdin Enterprise. |
You can set file export patterns and check existing ones using File Settings. The following placeholders are supported for iOS integration:
Name | Description |
---|---|
%language% | Language name (e.g., Ukrainian) |
%locale% | Locale (e.g., uk-UA) |
%locale_with_underscore% | Locale (e.g., uk_UA) |
%osx_code% | OS X locale identifier used to name ".lproj" directories |
%osx_locale% | OS X locale used to name translation resources (e.g., uk, zh-Hans, zh_HK) |
Crowdin iOS SDK CDN feature is built with security in mind, which means minimal access possible from the end-user is required. When you decide to use Crowdin iOS SDK, please make sure you’ve made the following information accessible to your end-users.
Q: What might cause the occasional delay in getting the latest translations in the app?
A: CDN caches all the translations in release for up to 15 minutes. When new translations are released in Crowdin Enterprise, CDN may still return them with a delay.