Chat SDKs Android v3
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Miscellaneous

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This page contains the following information:

  • Language supported for translation: a list of languages the message auto-translation and on-demand translation features currently support.

  • Deprecated block modes: the block modes that are deprecated but still supported for customers who have been using since before.


Languages supported for translation

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Sendbird’s message auto-translation and on-demand features are powered by Google Cloud Translation API recognition engine. The following table shows the languages and codes that Google Cloud engine supports.

Note: Message translation through the Microsoft Translator engine is no longer available. All Sendbird applications that used the engine have been migrated and are now supported by Google Cloud Translation engine.

Google Cloud Translation API recognition engine's Language Support

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LanguageCodeLanguageCode

Afrikaans

af

Latvian

lv

Albanian

sq

Lithuanian

lt

Amharic

am

Luxembourgish

lb

Arabic

ar

Macedonian

mk

Armenian

hy

Malagasy

mg

Azerbaijani

az

Malay

ms

Basque

eu

Malayalam

ml

Belarusian

be

Maltese

mt

Bengali

bn

Maori

mi

Bosnian

bs

Marathi

mr

Bulgarian

bg

Mongolian

mn

Catalan

ca

Myanmar (Burmese)

my

Cebuano

ceb (ISO-639-2)

Nepali

ne

Chinese (Simplified)

zh-CN or zh (BCP-47)

Norwegian

no

Chinese (Traditional)

zh-TW (BCP-47)

Nyanja (Chichewa)

ny

Corsican

co

Pashto

ps

Croatian

hr

Persian

fa

Czech

cs

Polish

pl

Danish

da

Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil)

pt

Dutch

nl

Punjabi

pa

English

en

Romanian

ro

Esperanto

eo

Russian

ru

Estonian

et

Samoan

sm

Finnish

fi

Scots Gaelic

gd

French

fr

Serbian

sr

Frisian

fy

Sesotho

st

Galician

gl

Shona

sn

Georgian

ka

Sindhi

sd

German

de

Sinhala (Sinhalese)

si

Greek

el

Slovak

sk

Gujarati

gu

Slovenian

sl

Haitian Creole

ht

Somali

so

Hausa

ha

Spanish

es

Hawaiian

haw (ISO-639-2)

Sundanese

su

Hebrew

he or iw

Swahili

sw

Hindi

hi

Swedish

sv

Hmong

hmn (ISO-639-2)

Tagalog (Filipino)

tl

Hungarian

hu

Tajik

tg

Icelandic

is

Tamil

ta

Igbo

ig

Tatar

tt

Indonesian

id

Telugu

te

Irish

ga

Thai

th

Italian

it

Turkish

tr

Japanese

ja

Turkmen

tk

Javanese

jv

Ukrainian

uk

Kannada

kn

Urdu

ur

Kazakh

kk

Uyghur

ug

Khmer

km

Uzbek

uz

Kinyarwanda

rw

Vietnamese

vi

Korean

ko

Welsh

cy

Kurdish

ku

Xhosa

xh

Kyrgyz

ky

Yiddish

yi

Lao

lo

Yoruba

yo

Latin

la

Zulu

zu


Deprecated block modes

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The following tables describe how the deprecated block modes work. They are only supported for customers who have been using it since before.

How explicit mode works

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Group channelMessagesPush notificationChannel list

1-on-1

New messages from the blocked user will not be delivered to the channel, and an error for sending the message returned to a user. The blocked user is aware of their blocked status.
A user can only see the messages that a blocked user has sent previously before blocking.
(If the blocked user is unblocked, a user can see all the messages except those that were sent during the blocking period.)

A user will not be notified that the blocked user sent a message.

A user's channel list will not be updated and rearranged from the blocked user's messages.

1-on-N (group chat)

All the messages from blocked users are delivered to the channel. You can choose whether or not a user can view which users they have blocked in the UI of the channel.

Messages sent from blocked users will be notified to a user.

A user's channel list will be updated and rearranged from a blocked user's messages.

How classic mode works

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Group channelMessagesPush notificationChannel list

1-on-1

New messages sent from the blocked user will not be delivered to the channel, but are saved and displayed to the blocked user's channel view. A blocked user is not aware of their blocked status.
A user can't see all the messages that the blocked user has sent.

A user will not be notified that the blocked user sent a message.

A user's channel list will not be updated and rearranged from the blocked user's messages.

1-on-N (group chat)

All the messages sent from blocked users are delivered to the channel. A user can't see all messages that blocked users have sent so far.

Messages sent from blocked users will not be notified to a user.

A user's channel list will not be updated and rearranged from a blocked user's messages.