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TyMarc
TyMarc

Reputation: 962

How does the Play Store recognize the languages of the app?

I am currently working on an application that has multiple customers and we build our apk with a build server. Some of our customers has spanish translations, others has russian ones, etc.

I was wondering how Google Play detects which language(s) are part of the application. Is it with:

values-es

With nothing in the folder

Or

values-es\strings.xml

And 0 or more files in it?

We don't want to show users that the application has a spanish version of it when it really doesn't.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 117

Answers (1)

Bö macht Blau
Bö macht Blau

Reputation: 13019

When publishing your app at GooglePlay, you have to decide

which countries and territories you want to distribute to

--> Determine Country Distribution

At runtime,

Android automatically selects and loads the resources that best match the device.

--> Resource-Switching in Android

So make sure to have a default version for absolutely every string in res/values/strings.xml in order to avoid app crashes
and optionally add folders/resource_files for additional languages, e.g. values-es/strings.xml

If a string doesn't have to be translated (like 'OK' in many languages), you do not have to provide a version in the respective additional folder.

Upvotes: 1

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