At what stage is it better to localize an application?

Question

Android

Hello, the essence of the question is as follows, I am a beginner android developer, there is an application that is almost ready for publication (it is completely in Russian). And so I thought: should I publish it as it is, eventually adding an English version, or wait from publication until everything is translated into English? Which of the two options will have a better effect on the popularity / payback of the application? Or is there no difference and adding various localizations can be done after publication and this is absolutely not critical? Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

First, bring the version in your native language to a normal state, and then start localization. Pluses in this approach are also those that volunteers can be found to help in localization.

Answer 2

If you correctly implement the application, then adding a new localization should not create problems.
You just need to put all the string values ​​\u200b\u200bthat you are going to translate into different languages ​​\u200b\u200binto a string resource file, if you need to translate into any language, you just need to copy-paste the file and translate all the strings into the desired language.
If you have released an application and soon want to add a language, it will not be difficult for you to do this.
As for the correctness, at what point to do localization, I can’t say, I think that it all depends on the opinion of the developer or customer.
If you don’t really want to bother with localization, you can use plugins for this, I don’t remember exactly what it’s called.
На популярность конечно это повлияет, надо сделать хотя бы Английский. Это очень сильно влияет на охват публики.