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Peterdk
Peterdk

Reputation: 16015

How to detect if the language is English (All variants) on Android?

I want to show a button only for English users, is there a way to detect the language settings?

I know how to get the current Locale, but I don't know if comparing it against Locale.English is sufficient, since there must be a lot of English variations etc.

Anyone experience doing this?

Upvotes: 16

Views: 22069

Answers (8)

Demacin
Demacin

Reputation: 11

Locale.getDefault().getDisplayLanguage();

if(Locale.getDefault().getDisplayLanguage().equals("English")){

    //do something
}

Upvotes: 0

Mahmoud Abdo
Mahmoud Abdo

Reputation: 11

All I can say about language is that :

1- in order to get the current language of app itself you should use

String CurrentLang = getResources().getConfiguration().locale.getLanguage();

2- in order to get the current language of the device you should use

String CurrentLang = Locale.getDefault().getLanguage();

Upvotes: 1

Srikar Reddy
Srikar Reddy

Reputation: 3708

To know if the default language is an english variant (en_GB or en_AU or en_IN or en_US) then try this

if (Locale.getDefault().getLanguage().equals(new Locale("en").getLanguage())) {
    Log.d(TAG, "Language is English");
}

Upvotes: 0

Pascalius
Pascalius

Reputation: 14659

The proper way is probably:

boolean def_english = Locale.getDefault().getISO3Language().equals(Locale.ENGLISH.getISO3Language());

Upvotes: 2

blizzard
blizzard

Reputation: 5375

What about using Java's startsWith() function to check whether the current locale is an English variant or not.

Locale.getDefault().getLanguage().startsWith("en")

Upvotes: 5

kabuko
kabuko

Reputation: 36302

From the Locale docs:

The language codes are two-letter lowercase ISO language codes (such as "en") as defined by ISO 639-1. The country codes are two-letter uppercase ISO country codes (such as "US") as defined by ISO 3166-1.

This means that 

Locale.getDefault().getLanguage().equals("en")

should be true. I'd be careful with hiding/showing UI only by default Locale though. Many countries may have many users that prefer another language, but are perfectly fluent in English.

Upvotes: 28

Philip Sheard
Philip Sheard

Reputation: 5825

An alternative solution would be to create a localized English version of the form. See http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/resources/localization.html for details.

Upvotes: 2

Sunil Kumar Sahoo
Sunil Kumar Sahoo

Reputation: 53657

Locale.getDefault().getDisplayLanguage() will give your default language of your device

Example

System.out.println("My locale::"+Locale.getDefault().getDisplayLanguage());

Result

My locale::English

Upvotes: 15

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