translate-android-locale

name	translate-android-locale
description	Generate, critique, install, and validate AI-assisted Android string-resource translations for Hermes-Relay. Use when adding a locale, refreshing a locale after English changes, or applying canonical translation corrections.

Translate Android locale

1. Read docs/translation-playbook.md and docs/localization.md completely.

2. Prepare a non-shipping draft:

   python scripts/android-locale-harness.py prepare <bcp47-tag> "<native name>"
   

3. Translate both draft catalogs under build/i18n/<tag>/ in semantic batches. Protect resource identifiers, XML, markup, escapes, and placeholders.

4. Use a fresh model context to critique meaning, naturalness, glossary consistency, and sensitive strings. Apply justified corrections.

5. Install only after the draft is complete:

   python scripts/android-locale-harness.py install <bcp47-tag>
   

6. Add the locale to AppLanguage, the Appearance label map, picker-label resources, locales_config.xml, and AppLanguageTest.

7. Keep the registry at ai-translated until a fluent review PR is recorded.

8. Run the locale validator, both flavor compilations, and Android lint as documented in docs/localization.md.

Keep one locale per commit. Do not mix signing, version, or release changes into translation commits. Apply later corrections to the canonical locale catalog and preserve contributor credit.