I want to develop an app supporting some language. I don't know how to set the locale. So user can change any language he want. Now I only know that android will try to set the XX/strings.xml automatically according to the device setting. How to set it by manual?
GO into your settings. THere should be a language and keyboards setting. Change it to whatever language you want.
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There's application which restricts users from opening the settings, if they tries to open settings it show login screen which he'll need to put password for managers of the app.
Now I need to add feature that makes him able to add language without opening settings. Specifically add Arabic language to the keyboard.
All I got from search that I can translate the app to another language or start intent to the specific page of adding language which is restricted as it belongs to settings package.
There's possible way to do that? by writing directly to the settings?
You can try to change the phone's Locale programmatically by this,
Locale locale = new Locale(language);
Locale.setDefault(locale);
But it will only work above API level 16.
An also after changing that you might need to change the screen configuration to apply the changes to your app.
I'm currently working on an app, which will be used (hopefully) by various tourist to my city. as such, i would like to complement as many languages as i can, and i have the appropriate translators to do so. I've read and started to implement the various different resources in the res folder, i already have some translated, i have a folder for each language as described in the guide from google.
How do I make the app initiate as non-English language in my phone while testing? for example Spanish. every time i run it, it's always English, and i would like to see that the app also works in the other languages, but i can't find anywhere how to initiate it.
I realize I might be simply overlooking something basic.
Thanks.
The language of the app is based on the system language. You need to change the language in Settings -> Language & input.
Change phone language from Settings->Language & input
If you use a physico-chimiques devices you have to change the languages of your device
If you use a emulator I think you can set the language on the creation.
If your tester have a android with spanish language, the app will be automatically on spanish. (if you create a filé string.xml in a values-es folder)
I have an application to which I want to add Burmese Language support. Anyone any Idea how to achieve that as google translator doesn't have feature to translate to burmese.
Also I have tried Few other links which is giving me keyboard like this
http://www.stars21.com/keyboard/burmese_keyboard.html
Android official language support allows you to set the phones locale to whatever is available. The list of available locales as shown HERE.
Being on that list means: the user can set the language of the app and the whole system. And you can have folders like res/values-de to show locale specific strings.
Supporting a language which is not specified and supported in the phones is difficult. AFAIK
Burmese language is not supported by phones. You can check out List of locale supported by android.
If you are logged on your computer, go to the Set Locale and Language© site on Google Play℠ and request the installation over the web interface. Or, follow the steps below to install it in your device directly:
Open “Google Play” on your device.
Tap on “Search” and type “locale select” in the search box.
Tap on “Set Locale and Language” app, which should be the first result.
Tap on “Download” and then on the “Accept & download” button.
Wait until the app gets installed.
Now, go to the system settings of your device and choose from the new installed languages in the “Language and Input Settings” option.
Set the language you want from the available list.
I am trying to make small app for android. My idea for app is that user can change the language whichever they want ...etc french , german,chinese , english etc...
how to force the locale language in my app or how to get access to the language used by user on their device and with respect to that I can change my application language.
THank you,
For this you may need to make use of Localization.
Please go through the following example available at the developer site.
May be this can solve your issue.
http://developer.android.com/resources/tutorials/localization/index.html
i want to change my application language from activity.
i have language dropdown on my activity and if i change that dropdown my application language should start using that language
now the problem is
if we change language from phone settings then android automatically picks
appropriate file and display data on activity
for example en-us,fr-rFR
now in my application what should i do so that android start using those language files?
any help would be appreciated.
I think I found what you were looking for:
http://www.tutorialforandroid.com/2009/01/force-localize-application-on-android.html