Change language dynamically using androids multilanguage support?

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M.E. picture M.E. · Jan 9, 2011 · Viewed 7k times · Source

Is there are way to switch between different languages within an app using androids multilanguage support (values-de folder for german and value-en folder for english)?

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Kevin TeslaCoil picture Kevin TeslaCoil · Jan 9, 2011

This is not really supported but possible by changing the Configuration object's "locale" field [Google Groups Post]

Configuration c = new Configuration(getResources().getConfiguration());
c.locale = Locale.GERMAN;
getResources().updateConfiguration(c, getResources().getDisplayMetrics());

Note that this alone will only effect future strings, not ones already displayed on the screen. You'd want to do this from a different activity than your main one, then finish your main one and restart it. This is hacky. See Post from Hackborn

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