WWDC 2023: Discover String Catalogs

We all should do this

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This article is intended as a companion to Apple’s video and does not replace it in any way. However, I find having a text file like this much more helpful than just a video but I’m sure you’ll let me know in the comments how useful this is.

Localization

Localizing apps is a very important way to allow different people to use any particular app.

We are moving away from strings and stringsdict files in favour of String Catalogs.

String Catalogs store strings in one place to localize content before shipping.

In the Repo I have created an existing project using Xcode 14.2 which is a simple new SwiftUI project.

Which contains no special settings

With the following code:

import SwiftUI

struct ContentView: View {
    var body: some View {
        VStack {
            Image(systemName: "globe")…