Best practices for long text and format(terms & conditions) for different languages?

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I need to create an activity for "Terms & Conditions" with support for different languages, but this is a long text document with several headers, paragraphs, points... which varies for each different language. So I think that having a strings.xml document for each language is not enough because each language "Terms & Conditions" has a different number of paragraphs, and specific layout for each language too. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

What will be the best approach for this requirement? Do I need to use a different fragment for each language(I don't like this option too much)?

Thanks in advance.

I normally show these files in a WebView, as separate html files. such as assets/terms-en.htm, assets/terms-de.htm, ...) — Phantômaxx, Sep 28 '14 at 18:03
Forgot to mention, as GreenFox pointed out: "and getting the current locale to append the language to the string indicating which file to open". — Phantômaxx, Sep 28 '14 at 18:36

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 10:33

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My best approach with that is to create multiple web pages one for each language to be supported by your app and create a condition or your Activity that will test what language is being used by the device then load the appropriate WebView you need for that certain language. Hope it helps.

Locale.getDefault().getDisplayLanguage();

This will return a String value the language used on the device.

For more info about getting the language refer to this link

edited May 23 '17 at 10:33

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answered Sep 28 '14 at 18:04

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Thank you. I had not thought of that option. Seems to be easy to implement and to maintain. – Dispose Sep 28 '14 at 18:20

Best practices for long text and format(terms & conditions) for different languages?

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