Android: default language of strings.xml

android xml multilingual
giozh picture giozh · Mar 25, 2014 · Viewed 15.4k times · Source

I'm going to translate my application strings.xml file. Which is default language of strings.xml file? because now i need to support italian (the language with i've write strings.xml for now) and english. Should i use string.xml for english and create

res/values-it/

folder for italian, and translate "default" strings.xml in english?

Answer

Kai picture Kai · Mar 25, 2014

strings.xml is the default and will be used if there is no country specific file like res/values-it/strings.xml or res/values-fr/strings.xml. Read more about Localizing with Resources.

I would personally use strings.xml with english translations as a fallback as you already suggested.

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