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RiRomain
RiRomain

Reputation: 177

How to set the fallback locale?

I have several version of an app in one project. For one version, if the locale of the device is not found (for example, no values-fr for a device in French), I'd like German to be used. For another version, if the locale of the device is not found, I'd like English to be used.

Is there a way to accomplished this other than by overriding the values/strings.xml (which is used as the fallback resource) in each version?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1565

Answers (2)

Zoe - Save the data dump
Zoe - Save the data dump

Reputation: 28238

If there are untranslated resources, they'll fall back to the default file (the file that isn't set with a specific locale). You cannot change that behavior.

However, you can write a library for it, but since it is a library all references to Context#getString would call the native system which calls the default file and not a specific locale for fallback resources.

Upvotes: 0

Boardy
Boardy

Reputation: 36223

I don't believe you can choose a fallback locale for a specific locale that isn't found.

Instead you create a default locale that will always be used for fallback in the values/string.xml.

If the device is set to a locale that your app doesn't have (e.g. values-fr), it will then just use the default values string.xml.

Upvotes: 2

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