Google Translate API in Swift
1 min readOct 29, 2018
A framework to use Cloud Translation API by Google in Swift. ⛄️🐸🐧🐳🐢
Installation
CocoaPods:
pod 'SwiftGoogleTranslate'
Carthage:
github "maximbilan/SwiftGoogleTranslate"
Swift Package Manager:
dependencies: [
.package(url: "https://github.com/maximbilan/SwiftGoogleTranslate", from: "0.2.2"))
]
Manual:
Copy SwiftGoogleTranslate.swift to your project
Initialization
First of all you have to generate API key to use Google Cloud services in the console. And then use the following code:
SwiftGoogleTranslate.shared.start(with: "API_KEY_HERE")
Using
The framework supports 3 endpoinds: translate, detect, languages. You can find more information in the official source. How to use from the framework.
Translation:
SwiftGoogleTranslate.shared.translate("Hello!", "es", "en") { (text, error) in
if let t = text {
print(t)
}
}
Detection:
SwiftGoogleTranslate.shared.detect("¡Hola!") { (detections, error) in
if let detections = detections {
for detection in detections {
print(detection.language)
print(detection.isReliable)
print(detection.confidence)
print("---")
}
}
}
A list of languages:
SwiftGoogleTranslate.shared.languages { (languages, error) in
if let languages = languages {
for language in languages {
print(language.language)
print(language.name)
print("---")
}
}
}
The example you can find here.