diff --git a/build/l10nParseAppInfo.php b/build/l10nParseAppInfo.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..74c040b333
--- /dev/null
+++ b/build/l10nParseAppInfo.php
@@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
+<?php
+/**
+ * @copyright Copyright (c) 2017 Morris Jobke <hey@morrisjobke.de>
+ *
+ * @license GNU AGPL version 3 or any later version
+ *
+ * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as
+ * published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the
+ * License, or (at your option) any later version.
+ *
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ * GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
+ *
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
+ * along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+ *
+ */
+
+/**
+ * This little script parses the info.xml and extracts the app name as well
+ * as the navigation entry name from the XML and writes it into a file named
+ * specialAppInfoFakeDummyForL10nScript.php that is created and deleted during
+ * l10n string extraction
+ */
+
+$fileName = getcwd() . '/appinfo/info.xml';
+$strings = [];
+
+if (!file_exists($fileName)) {
+	exit();
+}
+
+$xml = simplexml_load_file($fileName);
+
+if ($xml->name) {
+	$strings[] = $xml->name->__toString();
+}
+
+if ($xml->navigations) {
+	foreach ($xml->navigations as $navigation) {
+		$name = $navigation->navigation->name->__toString();
+		if (!in_array($name, $strings)) {
+			$strings[] = $name;
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+print_r($strings);
+
+$content = '<?php' . PHP_EOL;
+
+foreach ($strings as $string) {
+	$content .= '$l->t("' . $string . '");' . PHP_EOL;
+}
+
+file_put_contents('specialAppInfoFakeDummyForL10nScript.php', $content);
+
diff --git a/l10n/l10n.pl b/l10n/l10n.pl
index 3f50ec0756..c8312982fd 100644
--- a/l10n/l10n.pl
+++ b/l10n/l10n.pl
@@ -120,6 +120,8 @@ if( $task eq 'read' ){
 		my @temp = split( /\//, $dir );
 		my $app = pop( @temp );
 		chdir( $dir );
+		# parses the app info and creates an dummy file specialAppInfoFakeDummyForL10nScript.php
+		`php $whereami/../build/l10nParseAppInfo.php`;
 		my @totranslate = crawlFiles('.');
 		my %ignore = readIgnorelist();
 		my $output = "${whereami}/templates/$app.pot";
@@ -139,6 +141,7 @@ if( $task eq 'read' ){
 			print "    Reading $file\n";
 			`xgettext --output="$output" $joinexisting $keywords --language=$language "$file" --add-comments=TRANSLATORS --from-code=UTF-8 --package-version="8.0.0" --package-name="ownCloud Core" --msgid-bugs-address="translations\@owncloud.org"`;
 		}
+		rmtree( "specialAppInfoFakeDummyForL10nScript.php" );
 		chdir( $whereami );
 	}
 }