How to change Android O / Oreo / api 26 app language

java android locale default
Marius Razvan Varvarei picture Marius Razvan Varvarei · Nov 7, 2017 · Viewed 16.5k times · Source

I want to change the language of the app and this works fine until API 26.

For api > 25 I put Locale.setDefault(Locale.Category.DISPLAY, mynewlanglocale); before setContentView(R.layout.activity_main); but nothing changes.

The docs don't explain too much about this.

Answer

Skeptiker picture Skeptiker · Jul 26, 2018

I had the same problem: since Android 8.0+ some parts of my app did't change their language anymore. Updating of both application and activity context helps me. Here is an example of MainActivity function:

private void setApplicationLanguage(String newLanguage) {
    Resources activityRes = getResources();
    Configuration activityConf = activityRes.getConfiguration();
    Locale newLocale = new Locale(newLanguage);
    activityConf.setLocale(newLocale);
    activityRes.updateConfiguration(activityConf, activityRes.getDisplayMetrics());

    Resources applicationRes = getApplicationContext().getResources();
    Configuration applicationConf = applicationRes.getConfiguration();
    applicationConf.setLocale(newLocale);
    applicationRes.updateConfiguration(applicationConf, 
    applicationRes.getDisplayMetrics());
}

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