Requesting your opinion

[paldo]

I'm flight attendant and new in developing an xcode application. I need your opinion about my project. Since a few years I'm distributing an excel list with gastronomy, medical and technical words (about 500 words) translated in english, french german and italian. I would like to develop an iphone application. The first page will be choosing the language (english, french ,german, italian).
The second page will be a list with gastronomy / medical / technical. Selecting one of this will open another list with all words of this category ( like a itunes song list). Clicking on one of the selected word will open another window with all translations of the selected word.
Is it a navigation-based application? Is the structure with 4 pages correct or is there a way to reduce it? Thanks for your help

[dany_dev]

yes it's a navigation-based app.

Maybe you can avoid language page selection, and you can switch language directly on view where there are words, or create a tabbar, where the second tab allow you to choose language.

[paldo]

Thank you Dany. I 've forgotten to mention that the language selection should come at first as the users are Swiss ( we speak different languages) and might start searching a word from french to english, or German to french or....
Thanks also to your remark that it is a navigation-based application.
Have you ever found a good tutorial explaining the developing of this kind of application (translator)? Any ready to use templates? Any wysiwyg ?

Thanks

[m4s]

Originally Posted by paldo

Thank you Dany. I 've forgotten to mention that the language selection should come at first as the users are Swiss ( we speak different languages) and might start searching a word from french to english, or German to french or....
Thanks also to your remark that it is a navigation-based application.
Have you ever found a good tutorial explaining the developing of this kind of application (translator)? Any ready to use templates? Any wysiwyg ?

Thanks

you take a look at NSLocalizedString, we went this way in our last project, you can easily design the interface in the Interface Builder (if you want) and link all the labels to the code.

like

yourLabel.text = NSLocalizedString(@"hello", nil);

in the project folder you have a file called "Localizable.strings"

for each language you have a seperate file which contains the definition

English.lproj

//my english string
"hello" = "Hello World!";

German.lproj

//my german string
"hello" = "Hallo Welt!";

each string will be replace by the language which is selected on the device, if the device language is english it shows the english string, for german the german string. the easiest way to localize an app.

hope this helps

greets m4s

edit:
i forgot ... i would recommend for you also take a look at sqlite or core data for storing the data

[dany_dev]

i don't think that this is the right approach, you need to do a database (sqllite for example).

google gor uinavigation tutorials.

you will not find wysiwyg