I want to use apps that are in Mandarin Chinese but I can’t speak that language. Are there any app translation apps? I’m picturing an app that translates text shown by another app on the fly. At present I’m limited to copying/pasting or taking a screenshot and passing that through a translation app. Are there any slicker solutions available now or foreseeable?
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Yes, application is called Word Lens, and the technology behind it is darn impressive :)
Have a look at the video presentation.
But it only works for translations from english to spanish (and vice-versa). Supposedly more languages to come but no progress since it launched.
I'm using Alarm Clock (there's a free version, but with an ad on the bottom, so not very "beautiful").
It shows the time of the day (obviously) and can also show the date, and the weather/temperature. Nice touch: sliding your finger increase/decrease brightness.
(But no social network)
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Right now no automatic solution exists. Also, I don't see any new solutions coming up in the short term.
This is mainly due to the fact that Apple does not allow apps to take screenshots of other apps running on your device. Therefore it is hard to get the information into the translation app. With the newest iOS versions it is possible for an app to record the screen of the iOS device as a video - given that the user has to enable it each time, and has to permit it. Video does not provide a good input source for this use case, as screenshots are much easier to process for OCR and automatic translation.
So unless Apple provides their own solution for this, it does seem that a slick solution is still some time away. However, it is always hard to predict - especially about the future.