Kevin, After doing some poking around the Android browser on the UK phone identifies itself with an en-gb localisation, so maybe you can already use Locale.getDefault() to see whats what.
Al. cyntacks wrote: > Hi qvark, > > Thanks for the link, I hadn't seen the Roadmap yet. > > That's a bummer for us, but it does say q4, so hopefully the change > will be right around the corner. > > Thanks again, > > Kevin > > On Oct 30, 10:15 am, qvark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I don't think the API is ready yet according to their >> roadmap:http://source.android.com/roadmap >> >> >> >> Q4 2008 >> >> Localization >> >> The UI and Application Framework for the Android 1.0 platform >> primarily targets English-speaking regions. To enable handset >> manufacturers to deploy devices in non-English-speaking countries, we >> will support the following localizations: >> >> * Strings localized into various languages. >> o Q4 2008: German >> o Q1 2009: French, Italian, es_es, zh_TW, Ja, NL, CZ >> * UI modifications (tabs, menus, homepage shortcuts, etc.) to >> support non-English languages. >> * New date and numeric formats. >> >> >> >> On Oct 29, 9:11 pm, cyntacks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >>> Hi Everyone, >>> >>> I just wanted to give this a bump. >>> >>> Has anyone successfully "internationalized" their application? For >>> example, I want to determine what region the user is in (UK or US) so >>> I can provide English or Metric units on the backend for calculations. >>> Is this as simple as using Java's "locale", or does Android provide >>> another type of support on top that I should be implementing? >>> >>> The API says this is "coming >>> soon":http://code.google.com/android/devel/resources-i18n.html#i18n >>> >>> I realize I can provide different languages using the values-en, >>> values-xx, etc. But what about determining that region in the java >>> code? >>> >>> Thanks for your help, >>> >>> Kevin >>> >>> On Oct 29, 7:07 am, cyntacks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> Last I read here on the board Android did not yet fully support >>>> internationalization (even though we have the directories for >>>> different languages, etc). >>>> >>>> 1) Is this true? >>>> 2) Will the normal Java syntax involving Locales be a valid work >>>> around? >>>> >>>> I ask because our application needs to know whether to use metric >>>> units or not. Just wondering what the best way to determine this may >>>> be on Android for the UK release today. >>>> >>>> Thanks for your help, >>>> >>>> Kevin >>>> > > > -- Al Sutton W: www.alsutton.com B: alsutton.wordpress.com T: twitter.com/alsutton --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
