nubecita: Skill for Claude Code

Produce repo-owned values-<qualifier>/strings.xml translations with consistent terminology, preserved format args/plurals, and hard verification. This is how you satisfy the MissingTranslation lint error (promoted in both convention plugins) — a new string can't ship without its translations.

Why repo-owned and not Play's free Gemini auto-translate: Play injects translations into the served bundle at release time with no export, so they can't feed a local/bench build or be screenshotted. Owning them in res/values-* gives a real localized app + diffable PRs + screenshottable UI.

Pick the mode

• New locale (full) — the locale has no values-<qualifier>/ yet. Translate every source string across all modules. Fan out (below).
• Backfill (incremental) — the locale exists but is missing keys (a new string landed; MissingTranslation fails). Translate only the missing keys and merge them in. Usually small — do it inline, no fan-out.

Locale → Android qualifier

Play/BCP-47 code → res/values-<qualifier>/:

The repo currently ships es-419 (values-b+es+419) and pt-BR (values-pt-rBR).

Find the work

# Source files (the English source of truth):
find . -name "strings.xml" -path "*/src/main/res/values/strings.xml" | grep -v "/build/"

# Backfill mode — keys missing in a locale, per module (QUAL = e.g. b+es+419):
keys() { grep -v 'translatable="false"' "$1" | grep -oE 'name="[^"]+"' | sort -u; }
for src in $(find . -name strings.xml -path "*/src/main/res/values/strings.xml" | grep -v /build/); do
  dir=$(dirname "$(dirname "$src")"); loc="$dir/values-QUAL/strings.xml"
  [ -f "$loc" ] && comm -23 <(keys "$src") <(keys "$loc") | sed "s#^#$src  missing: #"
done