Why Flutter intl plugin keeps generating wrong files even if proper template provided?

Question

Followed the tutorial from Internationalizing Flutter apps only to discover that once Android Studio (Giraffe|2022.3.1 Patch1)'s Flutter Int plugin was initialized it will keep generating same file intl_en.arb inside the l10n folder even if the l10n.yaml file had a different template.

The l10n folder ends up looking like this (note the unwanted intl_en.arb file):

l10.yaml's content is:

arb-dir: lib/l10n
template-arb-file: app_en.arb
output-localization-file: app_localizations.dart

The only solution I found was to go to pubspec.yaml file and disable flutter_intl option like this:

flutter_intl:
  enabled: false

but after this I have to regenerate the translation, every time I do a change in .arb file with next command:

flutter gen-l10n

For now it's kinda ok but I wonder where the problem comes from?

Answer 1

I could solve this problem by deactivating flutter_intl in the pubspec.yaml

flutter_intl:
    enabled: false

Then rename all of my arb files to intl_en.arb and in l10n.yaml set the name of the template file to intl_en.arb.

template-arb-file: intl_en.arb

Lastly reactivate flutter_intl again

flutter_intl:
    enabled: true