Add android:configChanges="locale" to your activity nodes on the manifest file <activity android:name=".Main" android:configChanges="locale" android:label="@string/app_name" />
Update the post on http://almondmendoza.com/2009/01/28/force-localize-an-application-on-android/ :) monmonja On Nov 10, 3:43 pm, Kaj Bjurman <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't think that the process is crashing, at least not in the > emulator since I can see all these logging messages: > > 11-07 23:11:33.849: WARN/UsageStats(61): Something wrong here, didn't > expect "mypackagename" to be resumed > > There are lots of them. It looks like it gets stuck in some kind of > loop. > > Btw. It used to work, and I think it is great that it used to work. > There are lots of people in the world who speak more than one > language, where none of the languages are English, or they might > understand English but have two other languages as preferred > languages. > > Setting the OS locale to Swedish would make the application display > the English resources if Swedish isn't available, but an application > that I have installed might support e.g .Spanish, and that could be > preferred over English. > > On 9 Nov, 22:15, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]> wrote: > > > No, changing the application's locale like this is not supported, and will > > not entirely work. It shouldn't cause an activity to restart though... > > actually I can't imagine how this would cause an activity to restart, since > > this method is much lower-level than the activity. Maybe the process is > > crashing for some reason in this call? > > > 2009/11/9 Bahadır Yağan <[email protected]> > > > > Does anyone know if this method of changing Locale just for one > > > application > > > is a supported functionality? > > > > -- > > > Bahadır Yağan > > > > On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 12:18 PM, ydario <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> Hi, > > > >> found the same problem here. Even this kind of code fails: > > > >> Configuration config = context.getResources().getConfiguration(); > > >> config.locale = newLocale; > > >> context.getResources().updateConfiguration(config, > > >> context.getResources().getDisplayMetrics()); > > > >> where newLocale is a properly created locale instance. > > > >> The strange thing is that I can get the above code to work when my > > >> wizard library is running; the library code does not implement a new > > >> activity, but simply uses the existing one. I compared code, but I > > >> cannot find other real differences. > > > >> And I'm getting the resume problem also when I start an activity from > > >> a non-GUI class, this worked from 1.1 to 1.6 :-( > > > >> Yuri > > > >> -- > > >> 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]<android-developers%2Bunsubs > > >> [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 post to this group, send email to [email protected] > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > [email protected]<android-developers%2Bunsubs > > > [email protected]> > > > For more options, visit this group at > > >http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > > > -- > > Dianne Hackborn > > Android framework engineer > > [email protected] > > > Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to > > provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such > > questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and > > answer them. > > -- 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
