How to force locale within an Android app

Question

I am developing an android app and the task is to support three languages. In the first screen the user selects language and rest of the app should appear in selected language.

I can use localization feature such as creating a default res/values/string.xml and language specific files res/values-fr/strings.xml. When the app is opened on a device with FR locale all strings appear translated.

Question: How do I force a locale on button click so that the next activity should use res/values-fr/strings.xml

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 01 '13 at 17:11

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Give it a try:

public class SigmaMiddleEastApplication extends PPGApplication {

    @Override
    public void onConfigurationChanged(Configuration newConfig) {
        newConfig.locale = Locale.ENGLISH;
        super.onConfigurationChanged(newConfig);

        Locale.setDefault(newConfig.locale);
        getBaseContext().getResources().updateConfiguration(newConfig, getResources().getDisplayMetrics());
    }
}

or take a look at the following attribute:

android:configChanges="locale"

answered Aug 01 '13 at 17:11

enigma

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Where do you use this ? Should you do it in every activity ? – Mehdiway Mar 10 '14 at 16:38
I think you should be doing this only once. But I doubt this will work on devices > 4.2 since google removed this API to only for OEMs – NinjaCoder May 01 '14 at 13:53

How to force locale within an Android app

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