dkanova

Hi, I have an app with spanish text and I would like to have it in multi languages.

When I detect the phone language with

Locale.getDefault().getDisplayLanguage();

I want to translate all text to that language.

Is it possible??

Thanks in advance

jiminaus

You're talking about internationalization (i18n) and localization (l10n).

You don't do this in code. You do it with resources. If you do it correctly, Android will atomically choose the correct resource to match the user's language.

Study the Hello, L10N tutorial and read the localization dev guide.

Basically you need to get all your UI-visible strings out of string constants in your code and layouts, and into string resources. You then have a string resource for each language.


Oh, if you're asking if Android will translate it for you, then no. You need to translate your user interface yourself, or more usually, hire translators to do it for you.

Last edited by jiminaus; January 5th, 2012 at 04:03 AM.

dkanova

thanks for responding so quickly,
I have all my texts in res/values/strings.xml this texts are in spanish,
then, if I misunderstood your answerif I want to get all text in diferent languages I must have a res/values-en/strings.xml for english, res/values-fr/strings.xml for french language ... and I must do that with all device language and I must translate the texts manually

correct?

thanks again

jiminaus

Correct.