I wanna create my android app in three languages. English & Punjabi & Gujarai.
"Gujarati" & "Punjabi" is not available in locale list of languages. so i can't able to create values folder like values-fr(french) and value-rs(russia).. like dat.. How can i develop this app with "Punjabi" & "Gujarati"?
Thanks & Regards,
Jay Patel
Gujarati fonts
Punjabi fonts
The above links has fonts for Gujarati and Punjabi language
and u need to add this in assets folder and u need to use TypeFace
class to set that font
see list of supported locale from following Url
http://www.science.co.il/language/locale-codes.asp
U can support Gujarati just add gu-rIN folder in values folder.
If Android doesn't offer the language choices, you'll have to implement your own language toolkits: a translation framework and a menu where a user can change the language.
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I want to change the application content from English to Spanish/ French as per the selection. Do we have any build-in libraries for the same. I am new to this multilanguage part, so please help me with this.
You just need to create an additional folder like values-fr (for French) and provide strings.xml with respective values.
here you can find detailed guide:
https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/resources/localization
Create strings.xml(fr) and strings.xml(es) with your translated strings in the respective language.
Use this library to set the language in your app, it manages all the overhead of Configuration Context and other boilerplate code
https://github.com/YarikSOffice/lingver.
This how you create multiple language resources
In android studio
Res-> New -> Android Resource File->
Name the file strings.xml -> Resoure Type Should be value
Select Locale From Available Qualifiers
Select Language and Set region to be any
Click Ok
I have made an application in android but now I have to provide arabic language support. I have checked many of answers in stackoverflow but from any answer I didn't get correct answer.
To provide localization support for different languages, we need to add the language specific resources into separate folder. For eg:Inorder to provide layouts for Arabic language
we need to create a separate folder under res folder i.e.,res/layout-ar like this.
In order to access the current language via code we can get the current language by calling
Locale.getDefault().getDisplayLanguage();
for more information look into following links:
for localization :http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/resources/localization.html
for RTL layout mirroring (Arabic like languages):http://android-developers.blogspot.de/2013/03/native-rtl-support-in-android-42.html
Also you may need to use 'onConfigChange' to your 'AndroidManifest' file with option 'locale'
I am just a beginner but I have looked this question up and came up with this:
http://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/android-string-localization#.VG5A_PmUeSp
Eclipse provides string localization. However, when it translated the strings to Arabic, I had to double check the translation because Arabic has Feminism in Grammar and also some plural forms aren't that correct.
In AndroidManifest.xml:
SupportRtL
this will enable alignments of images and text to right in Arabic and left in English
Create two string resource layouts (one English, one Arabic)
string Resource
Add the same string with the same name in the two layouts but change the value of the arabic string in the (ar\strings.xml)
Same goes to each drawable item
(Also for reference I'll add how you can create a resource that ar or RL)
creating arabic resourse
Also either in the base activity to set the base local language
app = (MyApplication)getApplicationContext();
lang = Actions.setLocal(this);using the function:
function
can I change the referring a resource folders programmaticaly. I need to use a language that is not supported by android, in my case Sinhala. can I create a values_sin folder and refer it when user select Sinhala language. can I change the font together with that for entire application.
How about this: put your Sinhala strings in res/values/strings.xml, and the English strings in res/values-en/strings.xml or maybe even better, in res/values-en-rIN/strings.xml. When using the second method, your app will be in English only if the user selects "English (India)" as the phone's language. In any other case, the default resources will be used - which in your case will be in Sinhala!
Edit 2: actually, Android does support Sinhalese, using res/values-si. If you can't select Sinhalese as your device's default language, you could change it at runtime. There are plenty of posts already, such as Changing Locale within the app itself
Am doing a danish project, so when i long press in the edit text box i need the "Edit", "copy", "paste" etc commands in danish. In my phone there is no danish language can be selected.
any help is appreciated.
thanks in advance....
jibysthomas
I think you have to use Typeface for using Danish language without selecting Danish language from your phone language.
And for long press dialog I think you have to make your custom dialog and use that. I am not sure but this is my idea.
Thanks.
I use "Scandinavian keyboard " and when i need it press and hold the input box and change the "input method" to this keyboard
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.android.inputmethod.norwegian&hl=es
hope it works 4 you
Your Android build must support each localization for the system menus to appear in the desired language. Yes it is possible to support a language by overriding the system menus but if you use Danish as your default language in the app and the system language is set to Danish the system menus will appear in Danish.
Download a custom locale app from the market and use it to change your phone locale to Danish. In your app, you then need to support localization. Read this document on localization. It helped me a lot when I was localizing an app. Briefly, you will need to create a "values-da" folder under res, create strings.xml and define the strings you need with your Danish values. Don't forget that you need to have a strings.xml file in your regular "values" folder as well with all the strings defined. This folder represents the default string values, and is useful to fall back on if a string is not found in your "values-da" folder.
Trust me, the whole process is actually a lot easier than it sounds.
Im trying to build aosp for my devkit, and i'd like to know where
should i look to for :
to changing font size of texts
in settings section ( i've replaced
droid fonts with another one but the
new font kind large) or global font
setting.
to change position of texts in
settings section ( usually all texts
are
in left side, i want to try and put it in right side for example).
the language locale names that
showed in settings/language &
keyboards.. where are they stored .
i looked into LocalePicker.java but
could not figure it out.
For example i want to change a locale name from english to it's native
language (In some android builds i've seen arabic locale was in english, and
some other builds it was shown in native arabic العربية).