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JayHawk
JayHawk

Reputation: 295

How can I get a list of languages which are enabled by the user in their Android device?

How can I get a list of the languages which the user has added to their device? In the example below, the user has gone to device settings and added two languages. How can I programmatically get this list?

**List of languages added by user on their phone**

Thank you!

Upvotes: 5

Views: 3865

Answers (5)

lUjekSh
lUjekSh

Reputation: 85

Kotlin version. This is almost the same as suggested by (Shubham Agarwal Bhewanewala). Only with sorting and first capital letter.

val language = ArrayList<String>()
val llc = ConfigurationCompat.getLocales(Resources.getSystem().configuration)
for (i in 0 until llc.size()) {
    
    language.add(llc[i].displayLanguage.substring(0,1).uppercase(Locale.getDefault()) + llc[i].displayLanguage.substring(1)

}
val set: Set<String> = HashSet(language)
language.clear()
language.addAll(set)
language.sort()

It will turn out like this: English French Russian Ukrainian and so on

Upvotes: 0

Shubham Agarwal Bhewanewala
Shubham Agarwal Bhewanewala

Reputation: 1119

LocaleListCompat llc = ConfigurationCompat.getLocales(Resources.getSystem().getConfiguration());
for (int i=0; i<llc.size(); i++){
    System.out.println(llc.get(i).getDisplayLanguage());
}

This has backward compatiblity with versions. And llc will have all selected language by the user.

If you want full list of supported languages you will get it using Locale

    for (Locale locale : Locale.getAvailableLocales()) {
        System.out.println("HELLO " + locale.getDisplayLanguage());
    }

Upvotes: 7

Dipankar Baghel
Dipankar Baghel

Reputation: 2049

For languages selected by user - 

private fun getSystemLocale(): String {
    return if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.N) {
        return LocaleList.getDefault().get(0).getLanguage();
    } else {
        return Locale.getDefault.getLanguage();
    }
}

If you want to get the selected language of your device with below options:

Locale.getDefault().getDisplayLanguage();
Locale.getDefault().getLanguage()       ---> en      
Locale.getDefault().getISO3Language()   ---> eng 
Locale.getDefault().getCountry()        ---> US 
Locale.getDefault().getISO3Country()    ---> USA 
Locale.getDefault().getDisplayCountry() ---> United States 
Locale.getDefault().getDisplayName()    ---> English (United States) 
Locale.getDefault().toString()          ---> en_US
Locale.getDefault().getDisplayLanguage()---> English
Locale.getDefault().toLanguageTag()     ---> en-US

Upvotes: 4

Ryan M
Ryan M

Reputation: 20167

On Android 7.0 (API level 24) and above, you should call LocaleList.getDefault(). On earlier versions of Android, there was only an option to pick one language, which you can get via Locale.getDefault().

Upvotes: 6

killertofus
killertofus

Reputation: 433

Here is the API to get all the available locales of your device.

public static Locale[] getAvailableLocales () For more information please check this public link : http://developer.android.com/reference/java/util/Locale.html#getAvailableLocales()

Upvotes: -1

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