Is there a way to have a different Default.png (splash image) for different languages/locales in iOS?

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Eitan picture Eitan · May 13, 2012 · Viewed 8.5k times · Source

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Localization of Default.png is not working

My splash screen has English text in it, so I would like to be able to have a different splash image when users have a different language set.

Is this possible?

Answer

Alladinian picture Alladinian · May 13, 2012

Yes, it's possible. Pretty much the same way you localize all your resources. You just need to provide a Default.png image and then enable all the languages you're interested in. The result is that you'll get a copy of the image for each language into the respective folders. Then edit (or overwrite) each image as you need. I have tested it right now and it works fine (on iOS 5 but I believe is the same for older versions). Here is a screenshot for easy reference:

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EDIT: Regarding any doubts about whether or not this is a good practice, this is straight from Apple's documentation:

In addition to including the launch images at the top level of your bundle, you can also include localized versions of your launch images in your app’s language-specific project subdirectories. For more information on localizing resources in your app, see Table 6-2.

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