© Christopher Miller 2017

Christopher Miller, Cross-platform Localization for Native Mobile Apps with Xamarin, 10.1007/978-1-4842-2466-3_2

2. Working with Resource Files

Christopher Miller

(1)Slingerlands, New York, USA

Coffee is also a language in itself.

—Jackie Chan, Chinese Radio International, June 2006

About File Formats

When it comes to managing string resources for localization purposes, there are some file formats that you will need to work with. Applications written with the .NET Framework make use of the RESX file format. Xamarin.Android applications can also use the native Android strings.xml file. Apps written with Xamarin.iOS can use the native LocalizedString files. To manage language resource files for use with translation professionals, ...

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