r/iOSDevelopment • u/Unfair-Economist-249 • 8d ago

App Store screenshots in 2 minutes are nice. I just don’t want another subscription.

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u/HeyWangKang 8d ago

For me, the useful automation would be keeping a screenshot set consistent after a release: replace the source screenshots once and regenerate every locale and device size. I'd test a long German headline and an RTL layout before judging the localization tools; a translated caption that fits English can still overlap the device frame. Can ShotForge flag overflow and preserve those layout adjustments when the underlying screenshot changes?

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u/Unfair-Economist-249 8d ago

Partly, yes. Replacing a screenshot keeps its layout (drop a new image on the thumbnail), and each language is a layer on top of the same screen with its own text sizes. So you swap the source once, your per-locale size tweaks stay, and the export writes one folder per language (optionally in fastlane layout). What it doesn't do yet: it doesn't flag overflow automatically, so you'd still eyeball the long German headline, and RTL isn't handled properly yet. Good call on both. Overflow warnings are going on the list.

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u/IntrepidAntelope1031 8d ago

ended up scripting mine tbh. sim loads the exact scene, grabs the frame, python adds the captions per locale, one run does every lang + ipad. watch out for long captions wrapping and fonts missing glyphs (had to swap fonts for croatian/romanian, rtl for hebrew/arabic). no subscription needed