iOS Swift: Application name is pulled from project settings and not from Info.plist

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The title pretty much explains everything. I cant get my application name localized because it is pulled from the project settings' info tab and not from the Info.plist files.

How can I achieve, that the names in the localized info.plist files will be used, and not the one in the project settings?

have you written CFBundleDisplayName in info.plist and app name according to localization. — johny kumar, Nov 26 '14 at 06:04
yeah I did! but it doesnt matter what I put into the plist files, the name is taken from the project settings :/ — Michael, Nov 26 '14 at 06:05
this is the link for tutorial that may help you for solving problem. http://www.appcoda.com/ios-programming-tutorial-localization-apps/ — johny kumar, Nov 26 '14 at 06:11
ok, but I think its a configuration problem. I just need to tell xcode to use the plist files, cant be that hard? — Michael, Nov 26 '14 at 06:17
Let us [continue this discussion in chat](http://chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/65668/discussion-between-johny-kumar-and-michael). — johny kumar, Nov 26 '14 at 06:20
the key "Application has localized display name" has no effect either :( — Michael, Nov 26 '14 at 07:58

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 26 '14 at 09:03

I found the solution! I was very confused with the fact, that you can localize the Info.plist in your project. In fact you should never do that!

In the end I just needed to create a new strings-file (InfoPlist.strings). I localized this one and added:

"CFBundleDisplayName" = "NameInAccordingLanguage"

pretty simple in the end, but I got stuck trying to localize the Info.plist

iOS Swift: Application name is pulled from project settings and not from Info.plist

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