Do Android Support Multiple Languages

Do android support multiple languages?

Multilanguage support is easy done for android. Create a new values directory for the language with the suffix of the language code. For german: values-de or french: values-fr than copy your strings.xml into that and translate each entry. Thats all you need.

Multiple Language Support Android APP

You will need to create different String.xml depending the languages you want to target as JDenais says, in my app i have the following

for example the first arab string consist in the same as Strings.xml but with all in arab, now, you only need to call one string in your xml files and it will just select where to grab depending on the phone language. Or in default the language from where the app was downloaded by google play, in fact, they are all the same strings.xml , so you dont need to specify which one you want to pull the translated text from, just replicate your main strings.xml in your other strings.xml and then the phone will decide where to pull the data.

Also please read the official doc on how to accomplish this https://developer.android.com/training/basics/supporting-devices/languages

Also please check the language ISO Codes here

What is the list of supported languages/locales on Android?

Support multiple languages at the same time?

In My lollipop device it support koreans and hindi language,but my kikat does not the support both .I think each new version they are supporting more languages.
In Windows this is handled by system library called Uniscribe, on Apple systems by ATSUI, and on Linux systems by Pango. Android is based on Linux
but unfortunately Google seem to have removed the parts for handling complex scripts. (A rather strange decision since most Android devices
are for communications including text.) Complex scripts work fine on other mobile devices using a Linux based operating system like the Nokia N9 and N900
.in android There is no way to identify which language Unicode you song meta data has,if you the know language you can encode to specific language like what you did above.
Or you can give the setting in preference"to choose language " when you launch the app first time.but however if you want support all language at the same time.
You have to encode in server only ,so you can support all languages at the same time.

multi language support in android studio

Yes. Android OS can choose the best language for user from your app by searching res folder.

For example,you can define the Spanish string values in the res/values-es/strings.xml.

So, if user set up their primary language as a Spanish in the phone, Android OS will read strings from your res/values-es/strings.xml folder first instead of res/values/strings.xml.

If some strings missing in the res/values-es/strings.xml then it will be referenced from res/values/strings.xml

Multiple language support on android?

You should read the documentation. It's surprisingly very easy to incorporate multiple languages in your app as you just need to move all your strings into values/strings.xml and then provide other languages with the same string ids but different values at values-[LANGUAGE_ISO_CODE]/strings.xml.

Example

values/strings.xml

<resources>
    <string name="app_name">Something</string>
</resources>

For Arabic language

values-ar/strings.xml

<resources>
    <string name="app_name">شئ</string>
</resources>

How can I create a multilingual android application?

Yes, there is a recommended way to manage multiple languages

Multilanguage support is easy done for android. Create a new values directory for the language with the suffix of the language code. For german: values-de or french: values-fr than copy your string.xml into that and translate each entry. Thats all you need.

Do android support multiple languages?

Providing you follow the recommendations, detecting which language the user prefers is automatic.

Have a read of this:

http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/resources/localization.html

Enabling multi language support for android application

Just forget everything and just implement the below code Snippet

Inside your build.gradle file

defaultConfig
 {
    resConfigs "en", "ar"
 }

And inside your activity:

 @Override
    public void onClick(View view) 
    {
       switch(view.getId()) 
       {
           case R.id.buttonEnglish:

               updateLanguage("en");

               break;
           case R.id.buttonArabic: 

                updateLanguage("ar");

               break;
       }
    }

@Override
public void recreate()
{
    if (android.os.Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= 14)
    {
        super.recreate();
    }
    else
    {
        startActivity(getIntent());
        finish();
    }
}

private void updateLanguage(String language)
{
    Locale locale = new Locale(language);
    Locale.setDefault(locale);
    Configuration config = new Configuration();
    config.locale = locale;
    getBaseContext().getResources().updateConfiguration(config, getBaseContext().getResources().getDisplayMetrics());

    SharedPreferences languagepref = getSharedPreferences("language",MODE_PRIVATE);
    SharedPreferences.Editor editor = languagepref.edit();
    editor.putString("languageToLoad",language);
    editor.apply();

    recreate();
} 

How to correctly localize Android resources to support multiple languages?

Alright, I found an answer on this post after searching related documentation and questions. The problem wasn't coming from the structuring of my folders or how I retrieved the resources.

The resConfigs property in my Android Gradle file was set to only support language resources related to English resources. Because of this setting any other language that was not specified got removed.

After I added "es" and "nl" everything showed up as intended.

productFlavors {
    dev {
        dimension "default"
        applicationIdSuffix '.dev'
        versionNameSuffix '-dev'
        resConfigs "en", "nl", "es" //The culprit I created and forgot 
    }

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