Android Code Snippet [B4A] Localizator - Collect all strings not found in strings.db

Localize an application that has grown over the years is a challenging task, especially if you wasn't aware of the localization needs from the beginning on.

After reviewing some ways to accomplish the language part I selected Erel's ingenious Localizator as it has the most advantages regarding productivity and maintainability. Together with @corwin42 's hint to the "Easy translation plugin" for Google Doc SpreadSheets it is now just a matter of a "few" well coordinated copy/paste actions.

However, even after implementing all neccessary starter.loc.Localize(...) there is sometimes an unhandled phrase found during testing all function points.

Inspired by @FrenchDeveloper 's snippet I now let the machine collect the missing phrases in a kvs for the next update cycle.

In the Starter module:

Public kvsMissingKeys As KeyValueStore

In the Main module:

Starter.kvsMissingKeys.Initialize(File.DirInternal, "MissingKeys")

In the Localizator module:

'Localizes the given key.
'If the key does not match then the key itself is returned.
'Note that the key matching is case insensitive.
Public Sub Localize(Key As String) As String
  
    '###fredo
    If Not(strings.ContainsKey(Key)) Then
        ' Temporarily collect all strings that have to be added later to the strings.db during testing
        If Starter.kvsMissingKeys.IsInitialized Then
            Starter.kvsMissingKeys.PutSimple(Key, True)
        End If
    End If
    '/###fredo
  
    Return strings.GetDefault(Key.ToLowerCase, Key)
End Sub

The dump of the kvsMissingKeys can than be used for the next copy/paste round:

Log("#-Starter.kvsMissingKeys-->")
For Each k In Starter.kvsMissingKeys.ListKeys
    Log(k)  
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