Let's face it—mobile apps have become day-to-day tools for many of us. In 2020, consumers downloaded 247 billion apps. It's safe to say that if your app is only available in a single language, you're missing out on creating a delightful experience for your global audience.
In reality, localization has some drawbacks, such as prolonged development time and cost. For example, every new feature or little text change will now take more time to develop. And while this time add is often linear, it can be significant. As a result, some developers avoid app localization at all costs.
When it comes down to it, despite these drawbacks, there are still numerous reasons why you should consider app localization.
Bitrise's Verified Step program was launched about a year ago and it resulted in great success. They've put together a summary highlighting 15 main partners and their services with the aim to make building, testing, and deploying your apps a lot easier on Bitrise.
Friendly disclaimer: We have been part of this and the onboarding was excellent for the first batch.
As a friend of a guy who got transplanted heart in his most productive years, I can relay to this and happy to support your mission by providing https://localazy.com to improve language support of your webapp for free once you are ready. Thanks for your mission.
Hello, Jakub @ https://localazy.com here :-) Context is really a big thing and for that reason, Figma & other integrations comes soon with Localazy as well, and we can only confirm importance of considering internationalization and localization from the very early phases of idealization & development.
Moreover, productive workflow is not only about comfortable string management, but also about making it a breeze for the whole team from designer and developer to the contributor.
While we are not currently focused on drafting copy (there are better tools for that), our users especially love the way of work with Localazy. A plethora of solutions provides valuable assistance to the human. We strive to automate as much of the process as we can for you. So humans assist Localazy to get the work done only when they are required to.
In reality, localization has some drawbacks, such as prolonged development time and cost. For example, every new feature or little text change will now take more time to develop. And while this time add is often linear, it can be significant. As a result, some developers avoid app localization at all costs.
When it comes down to it, despite these drawbacks, there are still numerous reasons why you should consider app localization.