Avoid Android Lint complains about not-translated string

Question

is it possible to specify that the strings in a file within the value-* directories are purposely not translated into other languages? I have a bunch of strings

Answer 1

If you want to turn of the lint checking on missing translation, you may go

"Project Properties -> Android Lint Preferences -> Select MissingTranslation -> Swtich To Ignore In Severity",

hopes this helps others cause i just encounter this problem :)

Answer 2

There are 3 ways that I know of :

To apply the modification value by value : Set the attribute translatable="false" on the <string> definition:

<string name="account_setup_imap" translatable="false">IMAP</string>

If you have a lot of resources that should not be translated, you can place them in a file named donottranslate.xml and lint will consider all of them non-translatable resources.

Another way I discovered while browsing Hackers Keyboard project sources:
You can add the prefix donottranslate- to your resource file. As in the previous example, lint will consider all of them non-translatable resources.
In your case, you can replace unlocalized-strings.xml by donottranslate-strings.xml. It seems to work, but I haven't found any documentation for this tip.

See: Android Tools Project Site: Non-translatable Strings

Answer 3

Create a resource file with a file name starting with "donottranslate" (e.g. donottranslate.xml, donottranslate_urls.xml, etc), and lint will ignore its strings altogether when checking for missing translations.

Answer 4

Add to build.gradle:

android {
     lintOptions {
        disable 'MissingTranslation'
    }
}

Answer 5

I think that what you need instead of disabling lint is to mark them with attribute

translatable="false"

Answer 6

Another way to do that is add your string to gradle file, using resValue or buildConfigField. Something like that:

buildTypes {
    debug {
        buildConfigField "string", "app_name1", "App Name"
        resValue "string", "app_name2", "App Name"
    }
    release {
        minifyEnabled true
        proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android.txt'), 'proguard-rules.pro'
        buildConfigField "string", "app_name1", "App Name"
        resValue "string", "app_name2", "App Name"
    }
}

Usages:

// buildConfigField
BuildConfig.APP_NAME1

// resValue
getString(R.string.app_name2)