Error: "app_name" is not translated in af

Question

I am new at Android coding and this forum. When I am trying to run the project to test it I am getting the following error:-

"app_name" is not translated in af, am, ar, be, bg, ca, cs, da, de, el, en-rGB, en-rIN, es, es-rUS, et, et-rEE, fa, fi, fr, fr-rCA, hi, hr, hu, hy-rAM, in, it, iw, ja, ka-rGE, km-rKH, ko, lo-rLA, lt, lv, mn-rMN, ms, ms-rMY, nb, nl, pl, pt, pt-rBR, pt-rPT, ro, ru, sk, sl, sr, sv, sw, th, tl, tr, uk, vi, zh-rCN, zh-rHK, zh-rTW, zu

in values/strings.xml

strings.xml:-

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <resources>

<string name="app_name">ThessMuseams</string>
<string name="hello_world">Hello world!</string>
<string name="menu_settings">Settings</string>

It should be just a warning and your app should work fine. You can translate every string including the app name into all those languages but it makes usually no sense to do that for every language. Although I'm wondering why you see it.. take it as a friendly reminder that you could translate it :) — zapl, Jan 15 '14 at 23:45
Thanks very much!! I hope it work becaouse is for a course I have. Tanks again for your help — alexcha, Jan 21 '14 at 16:34
For **Android Studio** refer to [this answer](https://stackoverflow.com/a/45585534/6521116) — LF00, Aug 09 '17 at 08:34
[Avoid Android Lint complains about not-translated string](https://stackoverflow.com/q/12590739/6521116) — LF00, Aug 09 '17 at 08:36

Amit Anand · Answer 1 · 2017-05-18T17:43:07.193

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In your ADT go to window->Preferences->Android->Lint Error Checking

Find there MissingTranslation and change its Severity to Warning.

edited May 18 '17 at 17:43

answered Jul 24 '14 at 05:09

Amit Anand

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I am doing this, but its not saving – Abdul Wahab Dec 11 '14 at 07:55
what do you mean by not saving? change the things as per answer, then apply it and press ok. changes will be saved. – Amit Anand Dec 12 '14 at 04:43
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In mine it was Eclipse > Preferences > Android > Lint Error Checking, then set severity as warning, make sure to click `Apply`, then click `OK`. – Azurespot Dec 23 '14 at 04:43
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Search for **MissingTranslation** not *Missing Translation*. – vovahost Dec 26 '14 at 13:24

score 46 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 14 '15 at 15:25

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With Android Studio, you can prevent lint from checking the MissingTranslation warning. Add the following to your app/build.gradle:

To ignore this in a gradle build add this to the android section of your build file:

android {
    ...
    lintOptions {
       disable 'MissingTranslation'
    }
    ...
}

answered Oct 14 '15 at 15:25

grebulon

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This is more suitable than the other solutions – Muhammad Babar Oct 07 '16 at 05:07

score 19 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 09 '17 at 08:33

For Android Studio you can use either of the below ways to solve this issue

Method 1. Disable MissingTranslation check in build.gradle with

android {
     lintOptions {
        disable 'MissingTranslation'
    }
}

Method 2. Ignore the MissingTranslation in you resource strings file with

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources
  xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
  tools:ignore="MissingTranslation" >

  <!-- your strings here; no need now for the translatable attribute -->

</resources>

Method 3. Set translatable to false on specific string with

<string name="hello" translatable="false">hello</string>

You also can refer to Avoid Android Lint complains about not-translated string

score 8 · Answer 4 · answered May 28 '14 at 23:37

You should disable the : "Run full error check when exporting app and abort if fatal errors are found".

you can disable it from option in :

"Window" > "Preferences" > "Android" > "Lint Error Checking"

You should be able to disable

"Run full error check when exporting app and abort if fatal errors are found".

score 8 · Answer 5 · answered Nov 08 '14 at 01:41

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Try adding translatable="[true/false]".

<string name="app_name" translatable="false">ThessMuseams</string>

answered Nov 08 '14 at 01:41

sfledthered

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score 3 · Answer 6 · answered Mar 21 '14 at 14:02

The error is thrown by a check called lint which checks every dependency and guesses you want your app to be translated into all language the libraries you use are translated, in case of maps basically everyone. There is some setting for lint in the Eclipse preferences(Missing Translation). You could completely turn lint off or configure it so it ignores the translation warnings.

score 3 · Answer 7 · answered Nov 06 '14 at 04:32

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Just click the Checkbox dropdown icon near AVD Manager . Then Select Clear Lint Warnings. That will fix it.

answered Nov 06 '14 at 04:32

ralphgabb

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score 3 · Answer 8 · answered Apr 16 '16 at 11:44

How to disable Translations error messages

If you want to suppress the error message then go to,

On Mac OS X,

Eclipse -> Preferences -> Android -> Lint Error Checking

Solving Eclipse Android Lint Translation error messages

On Windows,

Window -> Preferences -> Android -> Lint Error Checking

score 0 · Answer 9 · answered Feb 11 '17 at 15:41

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On Windows,

Window -> Preferences -> Android -> Lint Error Checking Preferences Window

Run full error check must be unchecked

answered Feb 11 '17 at 15:41

Unknown.geeko

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score 0 · Answer 10 · answered Oct 01 '17 at 13:47

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You can write translation of the text to "Translations editor".

answered Oct 01 '17 at 13:47

Fuat

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score -3 · Answer 11 · answered May 21 '15 at 04:26

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I use android studio(v1.2), add the following build script then solved the issue:

lintOptions {
    checkReleaseBuilds false
    abortOnError false
}

answered May 21 '15 at 04:26

Allen

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