I have a text to speech application where the user can select a language and also select a male or female voice. The problem is that for each language there are different strings used to called the male and female voice but in my preference I only have two options (male and female).
<string-array name="Language">
<item>English (US)</item>
<item>English (UK)</item>
<item>French (France)</item>
<item>Spanish (Spain)</item>
<item>Italian</item>
</string-array>
<string-array name="languageAlias">
<item>"en-US"</item>
<item>"en-GB"</item>
<item>"fr-FR"</item>
<item>"es-ES"</item>
<item>"it-IT"</item>
</string-array>
<string-array name="Voice">
<item>Male</item>
<item>Female</item>
</string-array>
<string-array name="VoiceAlias">
<item>"usenglishmale"</item>
<item>"usenglishfemale"</item>
<item>"ukenglishmale"</item>
<item>"ukenglishfemale"</item>
<item>"eurfrenchmale"</item>
<item>"eurfrenchfemale"</item>
<item>"eurspanishmale"</item>
<item>"eurspanishfemale"</item>
<item>"euritalianmale"</item>
<item>"euritalianfemale"</item>
</string-array>
I'm trying to find a way to only reference the relevant male and female voiceAlias depending on the language selected. Is it possible to do this here or do I have to write some code which changes the values of the voiceAlias array depending on the language selected?
Thanks in Advance
Ok, you can accomplish this with two ListPreference
s and an OnPreferenceChangeListener
for each. First the XML:
<ListPreference
android:key="language_preference"
android:title="Language"
android:entries="@array/Language"
android:entryValues="@array/languageAlias"/>
<ListPreference
android:key="gender_preference"
android:title="Gender"
android:entries="@array/Voice"
android:entryValues="@array/VoiceData"/>
Let's make a new entry in res/values/array.xml:
<string-array name="VoiceData">
<item>0</item>
<item>1</item>
</string-array>
And now in your extention of PreferenceActivity
, we're going to take the string values which persist in your SharedPreferences
and from them create a completely new entry in the SharedPreferences
which gets its value from "VoiceAlias".
SharedPreferences shareprefs = getPreferenceManager().getSharedPreferences();
Resources resources = YourContext.getResources();
private void makeVoiceData() {
String languageData = shareprefs.getString("language_preference", "en-US");
int genderData = Integer.parseInt(shareprefs.getString("gender_preference", "0"));
String[] voiceAlias = resources.getStringArray(R.array.VoiceAlias);
int a = 0
String[] languageAlias = resources.getStringArray(R.array.languageAlias);
for (a ; a < languageAlias.length ; a++) {
if (languageAlias[a].equals(languageData)) {
break;
}
}
shareprefs.putString("VoiceAlias", voiceAlias[(2 * a) + genderData]);
}
ListPreference language_preference = getPreference("language_preference");
ListPreference gender_preference = getPreference("gender_preference");
language_preference.setOnPreferenceChangeListener(new OnPreferenceChangeListener() {
public boolean onPreferenceChanged(Preference preference, Object newValue) {
shareprefs.putString("language_preference", (String) newValue);
makeVoiceData();
}
});
gender_preference.setOnPreferenceChangeListener(new OnPreferenceChangeListener() {
public boolean onPreferenceChanged(Preference preference, Object newValue) {
shareprefs.putString("gender_preference", (String) newValue);
makeVoiceData();
}
});