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user1460819
user1460819

Reputation: 2112

Russian Language in Android Emulator

I would like to test my application using Android Emulator. To do this, I need to send SMS in Russian. The problem is that I cannot make emulators input Russian characters.
For example, I set all the locale and language settings into Russian (locale, language, input language), but still when I'm in the SMS sending screen, I can enter only English characters (for now I use Nexus 4 emulator). How can I solve this problem?

Upvotes: 5

Views: 8458

Answers (1)

Eugene Bolshakov
Eugene Bolshakov

Reputation: 2132

You need to add a Russian keyboard layout to the physical keyboard in your AVD and select it. Here's what the process look like in mine:

adding keyboard layout to hardware keyboard

Note that you don't need to switch the layout of your actual computer keyboard, it has to be English.

Also the dialog in the emulator says that you can switch between layouts with Ctrl+Space, but that doesn't seem to work for me for some reason, so I just do it via the dialog.

Upvotes: 15

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