I’ve an iPhone storyboard with some views. For instance, a navigation item title is named News, which should be translated for other languages.
When I add a new localization to my storyboard, it created a duplicate of my current storyboard for the new language. Here I can change the title for the navigation item, but for me it does not seem very useful. What if my storyboard contains 100 views and I need to support 10 languages? If I need to change something in my original storyboard, I have to make the same changes for all languages. That seems very odd. In which situations can this be useful?
What can I do instead? Should I have only the english storyboard and manually translate each element in the ViewController using NSLocalizedString?
In iOS 6 there is a Project setting under the Info tab that says “Use Base Internationalization”. If you check the box, it will pull all of the strings out of the Storyboard and into internationalized .strings files.
This way you don’t have to have multiple copies of the Storyboard.