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Christopher Miller, Cross-platform Localization for Native Mobile Apps with Xamarin, 10.1007/978-1-4842-2466-3_4

4. Island Menu Application

Christopher Miller

(1)Slingerlands, New York, USA

I know all those words, but that sentence makes no sense to me.

—Matt Groening

To demonstrate the process of localizing an application, in this chapter you’ll build one from scratch by using Xamarin.Forms and target Android, iOS, and UWP. You’ll start with just a single language, English, which will be written to support multiple languages. You’ll then add some additional languages. The last step is to add some platform-specific code to display the app name in the translated language on the app launcher screens.

About the App

The application ...

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