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bharath
bharath

Reputation: 14453

How to show Arabic and English text on TextView on Android?

I have two unfocused TextView in the single layout. I want to show Arabic text on one TextView and English text on another TextView. I have use values/strings.xml for English and values-ar/strings.xml for Arabic text. My problem is Arabic text not showing in the TextView. If I change the custom locale to ar means its showing. How to show the Arabic text without changing the custom locale?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 9416

Answers (3)

Balaji.K
Balaji.K

Reputation: 4829

To do this we need the font file for Arabic fonts. For example ,we have the Arabic font file name as arabicfont.ttf. Save this file into the assets folder then use the bellow code 

arabicTextview.setTypeface(Typeface.createFromAsset(getContext().getAssets(),"arabicfont.ttf"));
arabicTextView.setText("ur text");

Like wise we can set any type of text with out using the Locale

Upvotes: 1

Caner
Caner

Reputation: 59148

Put both arabic and english text in each strings.xml

Upvotes: 2

Roll no1
Roll no1

Reputation: 1393

Its default behaviour for Android. It will take locale information from system and map appropriate string resource from values-ar. Text you want to show in Arabic you have to take entry in values/strings.xml and have to put those arabic character that you want to display.

please share the result when you tried this.

Upvotes: 1

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