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jiwopene
jiwopene

Reputation: 3637

Can I use language other than English for default resources?

Android supports multiple application resource locales. Default strings are in values directory, other languages use values-XX directories. Can I set up Android Studio project to treat strings.xml in values directory (without language specification) as non-English strings (e. g. German)? I am 100% sure that all users know German.

Upvotes: 4

Views: 1460

Answers (2)

Destroyer
Destroyer

Reputation: 795

Yes, you can use German by default. Just put German strings in strings.xml, and for support of other languages ​​use values-XX

Upvotes: 1

CommonsWare
CommonsWare

Reputation: 1006904

Android makes no assumption about what language the strings are in res/values/. It is simply the default set of strings to use, for cases where you do not provide translations for some specific language.

If you want to use German strings in res/values/, you are welcome to do so. In that case, your English translations would go into res/values-en/ or a similar directory, should you someday elect to provide such translations.

Upvotes: 4

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