Richard, no it is not what i am trying to do. Suppose that I have an telephone which does not support Germany but i want to develop application supporting many languages as well as Germany . if the only way of changing language of application is changing Locale from telephone settings , it is impossible to . To summarize , i only want user to be able to choose my application language using application's settings. I partially achieved this using site that ı posted link. however, menu does not change when ı apply that way
On Jul 28, 2:57 pm, RichardC <richard.crit...@googlemail.com> wrote: > For multi-language apps you don't need to do any of this. Have a read > of localization in the > docs:http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/resources/localization.html > you will get the collect localized resources loaded automatically by > the platform. > > If however you are trying to switch language/localein a running app, > then as DH pointed out the platform does not support this. > > I have not looked into the platform code for lanuage/locale(s) but I > suppect that Android has no concept of an applicaton onlylocaleonly > systemlocale. If I am correct then are you trying to change thelocalefor the > whole system? > > On Jul 28, 12:41 pm, Engin Arslan <enginarsla...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > i am not trying to fight with system. i am just trying to publish > > application having multilanguage capability. so this should not be > > fighting. > > Whatever, > > http://adrianvintu.com/blogengine/post/Force-Locale-on-Android.aspx > > in this link i have found alternative way of doing this. by this way > > all texts changed proposed language, however there is still problem in > > "Menu" even if i recreatemenuafter changinglocale. > > > On Jul 27, 5:00 pm, RichardC <richard.crit...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > > You have already asked this and got a - don't do this - reply from > > > Dianne Hackborn. > > > > DH > "You are blowing away the current configuration in the resources > > > with your > > > own you have created that is not initialized. Things aren't going to > > > work > > > when you do that. > > > > You could improve that by giving it a properly created Configuration, > > > but I > > > don't want to help with doing that because what you are trying to do > > > is > > > never going to work quite right because you will be fighting with the > > > platform over what configuration is being used in the resources. " > > > > See your previous > > > thread:http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/threa... > > > > On Jul 27, 1:42 pm, Engin Arslan <enginarsla...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > any ideas? > > > > > On Jul 23, 3:17 pm, Engin Arslan <enginarsla...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > Specifically,menulanguage changes to English (which is default > > > > > language) when I try to changelocale. And then it does not change any > > > > > other language > > > > > > On Jul 23, 2:18 pm, Engin Arslan <enginarsla...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > > I am developing application in which user can choose application > > > > > > language. To achieve this, I am changing "Locale" as follows: > > > > > > Localelocale= newLocale("language code here"); > > > > > > Locale.setDefault(locale); > > > > > > Configuration config = new Configuration(); > > > > > > config.locale=locale; > > > > > > > > > > > > getBaseContext().getResources().updateConfiguration(config, > > > > > > getResources().getDisplayMetrics()); > > > > > > and restart activity in following way: > > > > > > > setRequestedOrientation(ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_LANDSCAPE); > > > > > > > > > > > > setRequestedOrientation(ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_SENSOR); > > > > > > . This helps to change languagein runtime. > > > > > > However , optionmenulanguage does not change , in factmenuchanges > > > > > > if I close app completely and start again but does not change in > > > > > > runtime. I even have tried onPrepareOptionsMenu but it did not > > > > > > work? > > > > > > > What is the reason of this? or can you suggest me another possible > > > > > > way? > > > > > > > Bests, -- 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
