How to change language of app when user selects language?
It's excerpt for the webpage: http://android.programmerguru.com/android-localization-at-runtime/
It's simple to change the language of your app upon user selects it from list of languages. Have a method like below which accepts the locale as String (like 'en' for English, 'hi' for hindi), configure the locale for your App and refresh your current activity to reflect the change in language. The locale you applied will not be changed until you manually change it again.
public void setLocale(String lang) {
Locale myLocale = new Locale(lang);
Resources res = getResources();
DisplayMetrics dm = res.getDisplayMetrics();
Configuration conf = res.getConfiguration();
conf.locale = myLocale;
res.updateConfiguration(conf, dm);
Intent refresh = new Intent(this, AndroidLocalize.class);
finish();
startActivity(refresh);
}
Make sure you imported following packages:
import java.util.Locale;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.content.res.Configuration;
import android.content.res.Resources;
import android.util.DisplayMetrics;
add in manifest to activity android:configChanges="locale|orientation"
Good solutions explained pretty well here. But Here is one more.
Create your own CustomContextWrapper
class extending ContextWrapper
and use it to change Locale setting for the complete application.
Here is a GIST with usage.
And then call the CustomContextWrapper
with saved locale identifier e.g. 'hi'
for Hindi language in activity lifecycle method attachBaseContext
. Usage here:
@Override
protected void attachBaseContext(Context newBase) {
// fetch from shared preference also save the same when applying. Default here is en = English
String language = MyPreferenceUtil.getInstance().getString("saved_locale", "en");
super.attachBaseContext(MyContextWrapper.wrap(newBase, language));
}