Language setting

Former Member over 8 years ago

How can I access to the language from device settings?

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dbrobert over 8 years ago +1

How can I access to the language from device settings?

Thanks for all and your help

I don't think there is a specific method to access the device language, since the language stuff is automatically handled…

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dbrobert over 8 years ago

How can I access to the language from device settings?

Thanks for all and your help

I don't think there is a specific method to access the device language, since the language stuff is automatically handled through the use of string resources separated out by language. What you might consider doing is putting a "lang" string in each language resource folder you are supporting and then you can check the value; I do something similar right now so as to access the device model.

<resources>

    <strings>

        <string id="UserLanguage">eng</string>

    </strings>

</resources>

So the above XML would go in //<PROJECT_HOME>/resources-eng/language.xml and then you could create similar files in any other language-based resources folders. Then you could set a language variable when your app starts up.

var language = Ui.loadResource(Rez.Strings.UserLanguage);

Former Member over 8 years ago

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Former Member over 8 years ago

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I don't think there is a specific method to access the device language, since the language stuff is automatically handled through the use of string resources separated out by language. What you might consider doing is putting a "lang" string in each language resource folder you are supporting and then you can check the value; I do something similar right now so as to access the device model.

<resources> <strings> <string id="UserLanguage">eng</string> </strings> </resources>

So the above XML would go in //<PROJECT_HOME>/resources-eng/language.xml and then you could create similar files in any other language-based resources folders. Then you could set a language variable when your app starts up.

var language = Ui.loadResource(Rez.Strings.UserLanguage);

How you use that variable? Because I do an if with the variable language and the simulator clear the display of the device

Thanks for your help

dbrobert over 8 years ago

How you use that variable? Because I do an if with the variable language and the simulator clear the display of the device

Thanks for your help

Hmm, if the simulator is cleaning the display then that sounds like there is a runtime error -- check the console to see what the error is. Perhaps the variable is not in scope for the if statement? You should be able to just do something like this:

if (language.equals("english")) {

  System.println("I'm English!");

} else {

  System.println("I'm something else -- " + language);

}

Former Member over 8 years ago

Ok, I'll try with that code

Thanks for your help

flocsy🤠 over 1 year ago in reply to dbrobert

Note: In order for the above trick to work you have to list all the relevant languages in the manifest.

For newer devices (CIQ 3.1.0) System.getDeviceSettings().systemLanguage can be used.