Is it possible to develop for Actions on Google in Brazilian Portuguese?
Thank you!
Updated - 15 Nov 2017
Google just announced that pt-BR is now a supported locale.
Original Answer
Not yet. They recently announced that French, Spanish, "and other languages" would be available later this year, but no specific time frame has been announced.
It depends on what you expect. You can use Brazilian Portuguese to :
Develop applications on API.AI
Develop applications only for test purposes in Actions on Google
Test your application through the simulator by typing your requests in brazilian portuguese in the simulator.
But what you can't do for now :
Use localization to localize your application in Brazilian portuguese (as the simulator does not provide the ability to have a pt-BR localized device)
Test your application in Brazilian portuguese on your Google Home device or using voice in the Simulator
So if you want to develop an application in Brazilian Portuguese in order to be ready when the language will be available, nothing is impossible. But there are several limitations.
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I am looking for an easy solution to launching feature of my app through the "App Action" feature of Google Assistant.
I found info about built-in intents such as actions.intent.OPEN_APP_FEATURE, but locale is limited to English. Does this mean it only support English utterance? If it is only supports English, can you help me how to use it using German?
As documented here, the actions.intent.OPEN_APP_FEATURE is currently only available in the following locales:
en-US
en-GB
en-CA
en-IN
en-BE
en-SG
en-AU
If the locale you want isn't supported - there isn't anything you can do, really. You can try creating a conversational action that will, at some point in the conversation, offer a link that will trigger your app, but this works outside the App Action framework.
Now that Google Assistant is available, is it possible to have the french language on a raspberry pie ?
Best regards
The google assistant is still not supporting French yet, until the time I am writing this post:
https://support.google.com/assistant/answer/7394513?co=GENIE.Platform%3DAndroid&hl=en
multi languages will be first supported in Pixel and then other devices like google home and then released in the assistant sdk, so i think you will have to wait for a while until you get in in the assistant sdk.
Google Assistant seems to be rolling out to Android phones in Germany starting today (at least if they have the beta version of the Google app).
Are "Actions on Google" also supported in the German language, and if not, when is that going to come? I just tried to invoke some actions and it didn't work. Or was I just using the wrong phrase?
There are two issues here:
Actions on Google are not (yet) supported on a Google Assistant besides the Google Home.
Actions on Google and Google Home are not (yet) supported in anything besides English.
Update: May 2017
At Google I/O, they made two announcements relevant to this:
Actions on Google are now available through the Assistant available on Android and iOS, not just Home.
Actions aren't (yet) available in anything besides en-US. They've announced that en-GB, French, and German will be available "later this year".
Update: Oct/Nov 2017
As #johan98 notes in his answer - German is now a supported language.
Actions on Google is now available in German, according to
https://developers.googleblog.com/2017/10/apps-for-google-assistant-new-languages.html
Is there a way to support "Latin" Spanish and "Castilian" Spanish in the same app? And if there is, how do you test it?
I'm currently supporting several languages, and I have all the language files in the app, but I can't seem to get the language to switch in the simulator or on a device by changing the region.
Thanks for the help!
Just in case someone comes across this post, I found that iOS only supports one version of Spanish. The list is found in the international language settings on each device and the region controls the display of time and dates.
I have implemented language change after restarting my app but my question is can I change my application language without restarting/closing it?
Any idea how to achieve this?
You can achieve this using the base functionalities of iOS, i.e. localization. What you can do is localizing your app in different languages, and let the iOS itself chose the right language to display when the application starts.
This way, if a user uses the iDevice in English, he/she will see your app in English (if you supported it as a localized language), if he/she uses the iDevice in French, he/she will see your app in French (again, if supported).
The official Apple page about Internationalization and Localization (also called i18n and l10n), can be of great help.