IOS App: Different name

Question

I'm thinking of the creation of an app for iOS (iPhone and iPad). Since the app most be multi-language, I'm wondering if the name of the App can variate depending of the language of the iOS?
Eg. if I'm creating a calendar app (like Apple did), the name of the app is "Calendar" on english iOS and "Kalender" in Danish iOS. Apple did that with their own Apps, but what can we developers do that for our apps?

Answer 1

Hi Dennis, and welcome to the Dev Forum!
Dennis Madsen wrote:
I'm wondering if the name of the App can variate depending of the language of the iOS?
Yes, both the name and the icon displayed in the iOS home screen can be localized. To localize the name:
1) Ctrl-click on the Resources group folder in the Group & Files tree on the left side of your Xcode project window;
2) Select Add->New File... from the pop-up menu;
3) Under Mac OS X in the left-hand panel of the New File window, select Other (you might need to scroll to the bottom of the list to find Other);
4) Select Strings File from the icon panel, and click Next;
5) In the second New File window, name the file "InfoPlist.strings", and click Finish.
6) You should now see InfoPlist.strings in the Resources group. Select this file and click the Info icon in the top tool bar of the project window;
7) In the File "InfoPlist.strings" Info window, select the General tab, then click Make File Localizable towards the bottom of the window;
8) Reselect the General tab and click Add Localization in the lower-left corner of the window;
9) Under "Enter the name of the new localization:" in the pop-up window, select a language from the picker list (for now just choose a language from the list, even if it's not one you currently wish to support; the link below leads to more info on adding languages);
10) Return to the Resources group in theGroups & Files tree. You should now see the InfoPlist.strings entry can be expanded;
11) Expand InfoPlist.strings. There should be two files, one with the name of your native dev language, the other with the name of the language you selected in step 9. For this example, assume these are English and French, which may be fully spelled out or abbreviated to "en" and "fr" respectively;
12) Double-click on the English file to open the file in a Xcode editor window;
13) On the first blank line of the file, enter 'CFBundleDisplayName = "Foo";' <-- Type everything between the apostrophes literally. The double quotes and the semicolon are required;
14) Save and close the English file, double-click on the French file, enter 'CFBundleDisplayName = "Bar";', then save and close the French file.
15) Select Build->Clean All Targets from the Xcode menu, then click Build and Go.
The name of your app should now change from "Foo" to "Bar" when your simulator or device language setting is changed from English to Français.
For details on localizing other resources (e.g. code-generated text, nibs, icons, launch images, other images, help files, audio files, etc., see [Internationalizing Your Application|http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/iPhone/Concept ual/iPhoneOSProgrammingGuide/BuildTimeConfiguration/BuildTimeConfiguration.html# //apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40007072-CH7-SW3] in the +iOS Application Programming Guide+. Follow the links in that chapter of the Guide to access more advanced internationalization (i18n) topics.
\- Ray