Android-Languages

Custom language selection and access to language names for Android

Requirements

• Android 2.2+

Installation

• Add this library to your project

  • Declare the Gradle repository in your root build.gradle

    allprojects {
     repositories {
         maven { url "https://jitpack.io" }
     }
    }

  • Declare the Gradle dependency in your app module's build.gradle

    dependencies {
     compile 'com.github.delight-im:Android-Languages:v1.0.1'
    }

Usage

Custom language preference in your PreferenceActivity

Add the following code to your preferences definitions in XML. The class LanguagePreference extends ListPreference and has the same appearance. It ignores the attributes android:entries, android:entryValues, android:defaultValue and android:summary because it comes with its own implementation for those.

Be sure to set android:key to the preference key that you want to store the language code in. For android:title, provide a value from your string resources, which will be used as the preference's caption.

<im.delight.android.languages.LanguagePreference
    android:key="myPreferenceKey"
    android:title="@string/myPreferenceTitle"
    android:enabled="true"
    android:selectable="true" />

Extend the Application class

In your AndroidManifest.xml, modify the <application> tag to include android:name="com.my.package.App". Be sure to change com.my.package to your package name.

In the package that you specified there, create a new class App that extends Application:

public class App extends Application { }

Have your app show up in the custom language

Always make sure two include the correct preference key for the language setting instead of myPreferenceKey.

Modify your Application subclass as follows:

public class App extends Application {

    @Override
    public void onCreate() {
        super.onCreate();

        Language.setFromPreference(this, "myPreferenceKey");
    }

    @Override
    public void onConfigurationChanged(Configuration newConfig) {
        super.onConfigurationChanged(newConfig);

        Language.setFromPreference(this, "myPreferenceKey");
    }

}

In your PreferenceFragment or PreferenceActivity subclass that contains the language preference, override onPause as follows:

@Override
protected void onPause() {
    Language.setFromPreference(this, "myPreferenceKey", true);

    super.onPause();
}

Setting the default option's label

Optionally, you may set a localized label for the default option. The default is Standard (recommended).

To change the label, go to your PreferenceFragment or PreferenceActivity subclass that contains the language preference. Modify onCreate as follows:

@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

    LanguageList.setStandardOptionLabel(getString(R.string.default_locale));
}

Access to the language names and keys

Optionally, you may retrieve a string array containing the list of all languages, when needed. Call LanguageList.getHumanReadable for the human-readable names and LanguageList.getMachineReadable for the machine-readable codes.

Contributing

All contributions are welcome! If you wish to contribute, please create an issue first so that your feature, problem or question can be discussed.

License

Copyright (c) delight.im <info@delight.im>

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

  http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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