This isn't really supported, though you can change the language of the
Configuration used by your Resources object.  This will only impact your own
app, though, not things displayed by others like your notifications (those
will still use the system's locale).

On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 10:39 PM, Raja Nagendra Kumar <
nagendra.r...@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Hi Romain,
>
> Thank You Romain, a follow up to this how do I change the default
> languge to choose in my application based on the menu we provide with
> in the andorid application..
> I may still want to keep my phone locale some thing deferent than the
> application locale.
>
> Regards,
> Nagendra
>
> On Jan 24, 11:16 am, Romain Guy <romain...@google.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > All you need to do is place your resources in locale specific
> > directories. For instance:
> >
> > res\
> >   drawable-en\
> >   values-fr\
> >   layout-jp\
> >
> > In your example to localize the app in English and German, you would
> have:
> >
> > res\
> >   values\
> >     strings.xml
> >   values-de\
> >     strings.xml
> >
> > And Android will automatically pick up the right strings.xml at
> > runtime, depending on the locale. If you want to know more about
> > resources and configurations, please readhttp://
> code.google.com/android/devel/resources-i18n.html
> >
> > On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 10:10 PM, Raja Nagendra Kumar
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > <nagendra.r...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Is there any good example to show how a single compiled application
> > > could support both english and say germany..
> >
> > > The aapt approach and Resource R.java approach seems to me that, we
> > > may need to have one binary for english and one for germany etc..and
> > > so on..
> >
> > > Like in J2ME, could we switch the language at runtime..
> >
> > > Regards,
> > > Raja Nagendra Kumar,
> > > C.T.O
> > >www.tejasoft.com
> >
> > --
> > Romain Guy
> > Android framework engineer
> > romain...@android.com
> >
> > Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time
> > to provide private support.  All such questions should be posted on
> > public forums, where I and others can see and answer them- Hide quoted
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> > - Show quoted text -
> >
>


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