The Secret of Monetizing Messaging Apps by Localizing Emoji

Posted on September 13, 2013 by Patrick Yip

Craving for emoji globally Did you not use any emoji in your online conversation today? Emoji have spread around the world while it began as a Japanese phenomenon (Thanks to Apple’s introduction). Asian chat apps like Line and WeChat prove that selling emoji stickers can be a highly profitable business. Western rivals such as Facebook are also joining the craze in the past few year. Although selling Although selling emoji stickers seems promising, there are other localization challenges that we have to avoid, especially if an

3 Ways to Save Localization Cost for Your Apps

Posted on September 2, 2013 by Patrick Yip

How to save on localization cost Imagine that you are a taking a cab to sightsee in a foreign place. You tell the cab driver where you want to go. When the bill meter keeps beeping, your mind keeps worrying. Finally you get there, pay the bill, and just realize that you want to go a little bit further. But then the driver tells you, “sorry you gotta pay again”. What words come into your mind? Stupid, or…? Some developers may

3 Tips to Localize Your Mobile Apps

Posted on August 23, 2013 by Patrick Yip

It is no doubt that mobile apps localization can reach out markets in different languages and thus boost downloads. With the help of professional translation and localization solutions, app developers do not have to learn any foreign languages to localize their mobile apps (just to know the whole localization process and a few technical reminders and more). However, to localize a mobile app does not simply mean to turn words into other languages. Developers also have to make sure the user experience

Localization – a way to become a featured app on iTunes

Posted on August 5, 2013 by Amanda Wong

You are a small team of developers and wondering how your app can beat those top developers’ apps and appear on iTunes App Store as a featured app? Carrot, a new productivity app that just got into the featured list, may have some insights for you. Carrot, developed by Hong Kong startup Innopage, is an app where you can track and reward yourself for achieving your life’s to-do, goals and endeavors. Just like many of the developers out there, the

OneSky professional translation service: 50 languages & growing!

Posted on July 9, 2013 by Amanda Wong

We are happy to announce that with our recent addition of Bulgarian, Croatian, Persian (Farsi), Romanian and Ukrainian, our professional translation service now covers 50 languages in total! Below are some backgrounds of the 5 languages that we have added to our professional translation service coverage. Bulgarian – According to an estimate, Bulgarian is spoken natively by over 10 million people and is mainly spoken in Bulgaria, Turkey, Serbia, Greece, Ukraine, Moldova, Romania, Albania, etc. Croatian – Croatian is the official

OneSky added support for HTML files translation

Posted on June 25, 2013 by Amanda Wong

HTML files translation readily available With our mission to become a comprehensive online translation management platform where companies and developers can manage and/or order professional translation service for a full range of localization projects, we are constantly adding more file format support to cater for the different translation needs of our clients. Recently, we have added support for HTML files, including .htm and .html files. With this added support, developers can simply upload their HTML files and our system can parse the

How to Add Localized App Descriptions in Google Play

Posted on May 30, 2013 by Amanda Wong

For the latest updates to localizing with Android tools, check out our coverage of Google I/O Developer Conference 2017. Localize your Google Play store listing to boost downloads Localizing the Store Listing is a great way to test your international markets before committing your full resources to localize the whole app right from the start. As mentioned in our previous blog post, the top charts of many countries are dominated by apps that offer local language support, indicating that many

OneSky professional translation services: Over 45 Languages!

Posted on May 27, 2013 by Amanda Wong

We are glad to announce that we recently added our 45th language to our language combinations for our professional translation services! The newly added language is Latvian, which is spoken by approximately 79% of the population of Latvia (source: wikipedia) and is among one of the 51 languages that Google Play supports. With the addition of Latvian, clients can now order professional translation services for 45 languages on OneSky. Languages supported by OneSky professional translation services Afrikaans Arabic Bengali Catalan

How to add localized app descriptions using iTunes Connect

Posted on May 21, 2013 by Amanda Wong

Note: The tutorial is updated on 31 Oct, 2017 to match with Apple’s update. Through iTunes Connect, you can add localized metadata, keywords, and screenshots in different languages in order to aid discovery and to reach more international users. For exmaple, if you have uploaded localized metadata, keywords and screenshots in German, the users who have set their iOS language to German would see your text and images in German. This also applies to all the German-speaking stores on the “Rights

Amazon has begun its expansion of the Appstore in China

Posted on May 16, 2013 by Amanda Wong

In April, Amazon announced that its Appstore would expand internationally to support nearly 200 countries and developers can submit their apps for distribution in these countries to reach millions more active Amazon customers. And it looks like Amazon has begun this expansion in China already. You can visit Amazon’s China Appstore here. If you would like to distribute apps on the Amazon Appstore, simply sign up by visiting the Amazon Mobile App Distribution Portal. Wondering what apps are already utilizing