How do I translate my hard-coded strings in swift 2.0?

Question

Despite all the info available on the web, I am still struggling to translate my hard-coded strings in Swift (target language: French) - How do I go about translating, for example, the title Week A in the following code:

let titleButton: UIButton = UIButton(frame: CGRectMake(0, 0, 100, 32))
    titleButton.setTitle("Week A", forState: UIControlState.Normal)
    titleButton.titleLabel?.font = UIFont(name: "CollegiateHeavyOutline", size: 25.0)

or the placeholder text in the following code:

timeTextField.placeholder = "Type in start time"

A step by step answer will be much much appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Take a look at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25081757/whats-nslocalizedstring-equivalent-in-swift — luk2302, May 20 '16 at 12:29
Does not seem to work for me... Not sure what I am doing wrong. — Laroms, May 20 '16 at 15:43

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered May 20 '16 at 16:14

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the hard coded text would change to another language this is called localization. so you have to implement localization in your project. follow this link.

answered May 20 '16 at 16:14

Chaudhary Ankit Deshwal

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How would you write it in code for my Week A title (in my question); can't seem to be making it work after looking at the link... – Laroms May 20 '16 at 16:37
you have to add 2 string file in your code 1 for english and 1 for french. you have to some configuration in your project after that you just put the key with localised syntax and the compiler get the string value from your string file . – Chaudhary Ankit Deshwal May 20 '16 at 16:44
follow the tutorial for this at first you have to do some work. – Chaudhary Ankit Deshwal May 20 '16 at 16:45
I am giving it another shot ;). I have got the 2 strings files already. – Laroms May 20 '16 at 17:24

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered May 20 '16 at 21:28

I made it - yes! I did the following:

let titleButton: UIButton = UIButton(frame: CGRectMake(0, 0, 100, 32))
    titleButton.setTitle(NSLocalizedString("WEEK_A", comment: "Name of the week A"), forState: UIControlState.Normal)
    titleButton.titleLabel?.font = UIFont(name: "CollegiateHeavyOutline", size: 25.0)

and for placeholder text:

timeTextField.placeholder = NSLocalizedString("TYPE_IN_START_TIME", comment: "start time")

Following the link in the accepted answer was really helpful!

How do I translate my hard-coded strings in swift 2.0?

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