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appsettings in chinese language doesn't work

TitanicTurtle

Hello,
unfortunately I have not found enough information about my problem on the forum and internet:

I have developed a watchface and now I want to offer the settings for it in Chinese. (applied from the Connect IQ App)
For this I added the entries 

<iq:language>zhs</iq:language>
<iq:language>zht</iq:language>

...to the manifest.xml and created the corresponding folders (resources-zht,resources-zhs) with the correct strings/strings.xml.
 It works in any other language, but not in Chinese.

The minApiLevel is 3.3.0. I am using vscode, SDK 4.1.3 and it doesn't work in the simulator also.
Target devices are the Instinct 2(s) and the descent g1.

Can anyone help me further or have an idea what may be going wrong? Thank you very much in advance!


  • +1

    Yes the  develop document say it should work, and it did work before 2 years ago. But after connectiq upgrade to a certain version about 2 years ago, it doesn't. You shoud release a brand new app for Chinese language. That's what I do and many other people do: one app for Chinese, one app for internal. I've thought all the language have the same issue, but now I know this is special for Chinese language.

    Don't worry,  Chinese version may not needed any more.  The latest connectiq in Chinese does't support to change the setting. Users couldn't change the setting and are quiting to download the apps from the store. I've thought those are bugs, but there is not any feedback from Garmin for about a month. Garmin will quit Chinese market? I don't know.

  • 0 in reply to yp

    Alright, thank you for your answer.
    I thought I was going crazy because it seemed so simple and I didn't find anything about the problem.
    It is a pity that it is managed in this way.

    I don't know yet if I'll bother to create an extra Chinese account. Anyway, thanks for the information and have a nice weekend!