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<resources>
<string name="hello_world">Witaj Świecie!</string>
<string name="welcome"><![CDATA[Witaj <b>%s</b>!]]></string>
<plurals name="numberOfSongsAvailable">
<item quantity="one">Znaleziono %d piosenkę.</item>
<item quantity="few">Znaleziono %d piosenki.</item>
<item quantity="other">Znaleziono %d piosenek.</item>
</plurals>
<string-array name="planets_array">
<item>Merkury</item>
<item>Venus</item>
<item>Ziemia</item>
<item>Mars</item>
</string-array>
</resources>What is the Android strings.xml format?
Android keeps translations in res/values-xx/strings.xml resource files with string, string-array and plurals elements. Placeholders use the Java format syntax such as %1$s.
It is used by Android, Jetpack Compose, Kotlin Multiplatform. SimpleLocalize reads and writes it natively, so you keep your existing project structure. Format value for the CLI and API: android-strings. Read the format documentation.
How to translate Android strings.xml files
- Create a free account and a project. The Community plan covers small apps with no credit card.
- Import your .xml file in the web editor, or push it from the terminal with the CLI.
- Add target languages and run auto-translation. Use DeepL or Google Translate for speed, or OpenAI, Claude and Gemini with your own API key for context-aware translations.
- Review in the editor with QA checks, glossary and screenshots, then download the Android XML files or publish them to the translation hosting CDN.
Sync Android XML files from CI
Add a simplelocalize.yml to the repository and run simplelocalize upload and simplelocalize download in your pipeline or GitHub Action:
# simplelocalize.yml
apiKey: YOUR_PROJECT_API_KEY
uploadFormat: android-strings
uploadPath: ./locales/{lang}.xml
downloadFormat: android-strings
downloadPath: ./locales/{lang}.xmlConvert Android XML to other formats
The same project can export translations in more than 30 formats, and the free online converter works without an account:
- Convert Android XML to JSON
- Convert Android XML to Multi-language JSON
- Convert Android XML to YAML
- Convert Android XML to CSV
- Convert Android XML to TSV
- Convert Android XML to Excel
- Convert Android XML to XLIFF 1.2
- Convert Android XML to XLIFF 2.0
- Convert Android XML to iOS .strings
- Convert Android XML to iOS .stringsdict
Start translating Android XML files
- Native Android strings.xml import and export
- Auto-translation with DeepL, Google, OpenAI, Claude and Gemini
- Translation editor, QA checks, CLI and CDN on the free plan