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user1940676
user1940676

Reputation: 4448

How to get locale with region?

I am trying to get the current device locale with the region like "en_us","en_gb".

I am calling Locale.getDefault().getLanguage() and it returns only the two letters code en.

Upvotes: 13

Views: 23340

Answers (4)

Frank Schmitt
Frank Schmitt

Reputation: 25775

It's worth pointing out that locale codes and language tags are related but different. Locale codes have an underscore separator (e.g. fr_CA), and language tags have a dash separator (e.g. fr-ca). I'm sure there are some deeper differences but that's beyond my pay grade.

This answer gives the result of various methods on the Locale class: https://stackoverflow.com/a/23168383

It looks like you want the toString() method (to get the locale code) or the toLanguageTag() (to get the language tag).

Upvotes: 1

Andromeda
Andromeda

Reputation: 12897

Format like "en_us" or "en_gb" has "language code"_"country code"

A Locale object contains both country code and language code.

So you can use below snippet to format your own code.. 

String cCode = Locale.getDefault().getCountry();
String lCode = Locale.getDefault().getLanguage();
String code = lCode+"_"+cCode;

or

you can use toString() method on Locale object to get the data

String code = Locale.getDefault().toString();

Upvotes: 30

MilapTank
MilapTank

Reputation: 10076

The default Locale is constructed statically at runtime for your application process from the system property settings, so it will represent the Locale selected on that device when the application was launched. Typically, this is fine, but it does mean that if the user changes their Locale in settings after your application process is running, the value of getDefaultLocale() probably will not be immediately updated.

If you need to trap events like this for some reason in your application, you might instead try obtaining the Locale available from the resource Configuration object, i.e.

Locale current = getResources().getConfiguration().locale;

You may find that this value is updated more quickly after a settings change if that is necessary for your application.

i have tested this :)

i have got from this as link may be deleted so Answer copied :)

Upvotes: 2

kallehj
kallehj

Reputation: 302

Use

Locale.getDisplayName();

This is shorthand for 

Locale.getDisplayName(Locale.getDefault());

The documentation is in here:http://developer.android.com/reference/java/util/Locale.html

Upvotes: -2

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