This is a general recommended workflow which we have implement, I never heard that it breaks the code or changes somethings in an application. For mobile development I can suggest you enabling skip stings option in project export settings:
Thank you. I added skip_untranslated_strings to my configuration file so it is picked up by the CLI client. It works. Interestingly, the setting does two things:
it excludes strings attributed with translatable="false"
it excludes strings which have not been translated
The first effect was not clear to me from the documentation. Maybe it is worth rephrasing the paragraph a little.
Not exactly. In Android Studio, by default the Lint tool highlights empty XML tags which use a closing tag like </string> with a warning:
Thanks for your notice, we’ll consider your comments regarding the documentation.
Regarding 2nd, I’m sure there is a logical explanation for why our system works that way, otherwise, we should already have received many complaints about that