Hi,

I've searched for something about to know how to have access to the phone's current language, but I haven't found anything.
I would like to know how to get device's current language. I need to do it to make an multilanguage app that is based on phone's current language.

E.g.: if device's current language is English, my app will automatically changed to english language. The same for Russian, Portuguese, etc. (Yes, I know I have to implement code to make my app language, but the first step is to know get device's current language ).

Thanks!!

Regards,
André Leitão

You don't have to do this by yourself !

Just put all of your texts for a language in a strings.xml file, and have one strings.xml file for each language, in a specific directory :
value-en for an english text,
value-fr for a french text,
...


See the documentation here :
http://developer.android.com/guide/topi ... -i18n.html

Hope it helps,

Thanks for answering, Emmanuel. Your answer helps a lot, but currently I need to do a manual verification because I must to change not only texts, but images too. You see? Can you help me anyway?


Thanks

Two things :

Once again, if all the differences you have are just resources, you can stick with my solution in my previous answer : I talked about the value-en/stringx.xml, but you can do the same thing for any resources, including drawable.
So in your case you can have some drawable-en, drawable-fr directories.

Now if you really want different codes for different languages, I imagine you can get the language from the locale object :
http://developer.android.com/reference/ ... ocale.html
( I let you investigate to find how to get the locale object )

But I really think the first option is the preferred one !

Hope it helps,

But you could simply use seperate folders..

Good tutorial -> http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/web/localizing-android-apps-draft

--- Edit ---
Emmanuel7 was faster
But the tutorial should be helpfull anyway

Emmanuel7 was faster

By the way I didn't know this tutorial, and it is really interesting, covering the whole process !!

Thanks for that !

Perfect! Thank you guys.