the default one with the name values and the other with name values-hi.
Click on Ok and now, you will be having two values directory i.e. Right Click on res > New > Android Resource File. Now, we are ready to add a new language to our app. So, we are done with our prerequisite part. Hello Everyone! I am learning how to change the App Locale. The following is the XML code for the same: Īnd finally, here is the strings.xml file: Similarly, you can add one TextView in your LanguageActivity. The following is the code for the activity_main.xml file: 
The message will be shown in English if the language of the app is English and the message will be shown in Hindi if the language of the app is Hindi.
LanguageActivity: This will simply contain a TextView displaying some message. MainActivity: This will contain one welcome TextView and two Buttons, one for opening the next activity in the English language and the other for opening the next activity in the Hindi language. So, let's see how to add this.įirst of all, create a project in Android Studio. We do not have to do anything extra here.īut, many times, we want our users to change the language of our App only by selecting the preferred language and not by changing the language of our Android phone. For example, if the language of your Android phone is English, then strings.xml of English will be loaded by Android. So, basically Android loads the resources related to language based on the system locale setting. So, similarly, for other languages, you need to add their strings.xml file. 
In this blog, we will learn how to change the App locale in Android with ease.īy default, you have English as your default language for the whole app and the text corresponding to the English language will be there in our strings.xml file. Like "Hello" in English will become "Bonjour" in French and "नमस्ते" in Hindi.īut how can we change the language? That's the topic for this blog.
For example, if you have English, French, and Hindi users, then you can have language support for all these languages. By languages, I mean the language of the text that we see in any mobile application. In your app, you can add as many languages as you want.
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