But that gains nothing over adding them as static lists inside the resource files. It's not like I'm going to changing the names of countries on a daily basis.
In either case I will need to construct the ordered lists for each Locale. But if I put them in a DB then I've lost visibility over localisation of those resources. William On Monday, February 4, 2013 10:46:44 PM UTC+10, lbendlin wrote: > > As I said, I would create a SQLite table with locale, language code and > language title. Then you can do a database query that filters by the > current locale and retrieves language code and title sorted by the title. > > > On Sunday, February 3, 2013 5:46:45 PM UTC-5, William Ferguson wrote: > >> OK, I guess I mustn't have expressed myself clearly. >> I can't see how a preference is going to help here. >> >> I can provide an explicit ordering in each an every resource locale that >> suits that locale. But I'm wondering whether there is a programmatic (or >> other) way to ensure that the values displayed by a ListPreference are in >> alpha order for the current locale? >> >> William >> >> >> On Saturday, February 2, 2013 12:50:49 PM UTC+10, lbendlin wrote: >>> >>> smells like a database driven custom preference to me. >>> >>> On Friday, February 1, 2013 9:13:09 PM UTC-5, William Ferguson wrote: >>>> >>>> What's the optimal way to ensure that the values in a ListPreference >>>> are alpha ordered according to the current locale? >>>> >>>> Eg if my list contains languages >>>> <string-array name="language_keys"> >>>> <item>cs</item> >>>> <item>da</item> >>>> <item>de</item> >>>> <item>en</item> >>>> <item>es</item> >>>> <item>fi</item> >>>> </string-array> >>>> >>>> <string-array name="language_values"> <!-- English displays --> >>>> <item>Czech</item> >>>> <item>Danish</item> >>>> <item>German</item> >>>> <item>English</item> >>>> <item>Spanish</item> >>>> <item>Finnish</item> >>>> </string-array> >>>> >>>> <string-array name="language_values"> <!-- German displays --> >>>> <item>Tschechisch</item> >>>> <item>Dänisch</item> >>>> <item>Deutsch</item> >>>> <item>Englisch</item> >>>> <item>Spanisch</item> >>>> <item>Finnisch</item> >>>> </string-array> >>>> >>>> Should I replicate the keys and values in all resource locales and >>>> change their order to suit? Or is their some way that I haven't found yet >>>> where I can readily apply a sort to the ListPreference keys and values? >>>> >>>> William >>>> >>> -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
