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NewBee
NewBee

Reputation: 394

How to embed different languages in android apps?

I have made an app.(base version Gingerbread 2.3) and now I want to embed different languages to it so that the user can use the app. in different languages. But the process of embedding different languages is not clear to me(I'm a new to android programming), somebody please explain it in details with code.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 237

Answers (2)

Siddharth Lele
Siddharth Lele

Reputation: 27748

This is a good tutorial to get you started: http://www.icanlocalize.com/site/tutorials/android-application-localization-tutorial/

Essentially, you need to create individual values folders for all the languages you wish to support.

For example, if you are supporting French along with the default English, then, you will need to create a values-fr folder. If you wish to support region specific languages, then you will need to create those too. For example, French language with the Region set to Canada, then you will need to create this: values-fr-rCA

How this works is: 1. If the Region is set to Canada and the Language is set to French, the OS will look for the values folder: values-fr-rCA 2. If the above is not found, it looks for values-fr. 3. If none of the above are found, it defaults back to the normal values folder.

You will need to code your Strings.XML for all the values you use throughout your application. ** Hard-coded** strings will not be switch to other Languages.

The same goes for drawables too.

Read more about Localization here

Upvotes: 1

Hardik Joshi
Hardik Joshi

Reputation: 9507

Multi language support is easy done for android. Create a new values directory for the language with the suffix of the language code. For german: values-de or french: values-fr than copy your strings.xml into that and translate each entry.

For more information refer this.

Upvotes: 1

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