Cloudspeak is a library you can add to a Cocoa application to load localization data from anywhere, change localizations at runtime and more.

Cloudspeak is very much a work in progress, and its API will change significantly; currently, it works like so:

• You get a ILLocalization object from somewhere (or make one at runtime via ILMutableLocalization);

• You set it like so:

   [ILLocalizationController sharedController].currentLocalization = l;
  

• You access the localizations as follows:

  • Replace all NSLocalizedString…() macro uses with the corresponding ILLocalizedString…() macros; and
  • Use the -localizeKeyPaths:ofObject: to localize stuff loaded from NIBs (subject to change, but check out the additions to UIViewController!).

STUFF THAT WORKS:

• The above.

• … which means you can change localizations at runtime at will. The library posts appropriate notifications, and the UIViewController additions can catch them and provide you with a chance of either reapplying the localization, or hiding/dismissing so that the NIB can be reloaded.

TODO:

• A way of localizing NIBs that doesn't force people to make tons of outlets to all possible objects (maybe examining the view hierarchy in some efficient way?).

• A ILLocalizationFeed class that can fetch localizations off the Internet and auto-update them or somesuch.