Do android support multiple languages?

android multilingual
Ganesh picture Ganesh · Sep 2, 2010 · Viewed 21k times · Source

If i run my android application with a htc magic with locale English, I find my application running properly and if i try to run it on Motorola droid with locale korean, My application(apk) is not even installing on the device. Does android support different language? Is it is because of different language OS versions?

Answer

WarrenFaith picture WarrenFaith · Sep 2, 2010

Multilanguage support is easy done for android. Create a new values directory for the language with the suffix of the language code. For german: values-de or french: values-fr than copy your strings.xml into that and translate each entry. Thats all you need.

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