Hi QUESTION: How can I determine which alternate resources Android has decided to load? Even simply detecting the language loaded for a particular string (such as the screen title string) would be sufficient.
SCENARIO: My application retrieves some localized information from a server. The application currently only supports a few languages and when a particular language is not supported Android falls back to the default application language which is English. I am concerned about the following case: A user's phone is set to a language which my application does not support (for example, Russian). The server nevertheless happens to support Russian. If I ask the phone for its locale using getApplicationContext().getResources().getConfiguration().locale.toString() , I will receive ru , for Russian, since that is what the user set. If I send 'ru' to the server, the server will respond with Russian-language text. My application though is currently displaying everything in English, since that's the default fallback language. Even though the user probably will understand the Russian text (since the phone is set to Russian), it looks quite strange to have the mix of languages on the same screen. (The naive solution is for me to manually crawl my resource folders and then implement a selection process which mimics the selection process that Android performs as described in, "How Android finds the best matching directory" of http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/resources/resources-i18n.html#AlternateResources . This in general sounds like a bad idea for obvious reasons). Thanks. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en To unsubscribe, reply using "remove me" as the subject.
