Locale Changed, but String Resources are not updating

Asked Mar 25 '19 at 13:13

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I have a problem in changing locale, I have tried this https://stackoverflow.com/a/40704077/2199589 and the following snippet with both BaseContext and ApplicationContext, none of them works well. I have saved the current language in share preference. Even that value is correct, string resources are not updating as the way they should be.

public void changeLanguage(String languageToLoad) {
    showLog("Language to be loaded :-  "+ languageToLoad);
    Locale locale = new Locale(languageToLoad);
    Locale.setDefault(locale);
    Configuration config = new Configuration(getApplicationContext().getResources().getConfiguration());
    config.setLocale(locale);
    getApplicationContext().getResources().updateConfiguration(config,getApplicationContext().getResources().getDisplayMetrics() );

}

I have updated the UI after calling this method, and the UI actually did the refresh. So any idea what went wrong? Please help me with this.

edited Mar 25 '19 at 13:18

Dr Mido

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asked Mar 25 '19 at 13:13

Daniel Jr McCoy

Locale changing on Android just sound easy. But actually it is complex thing depending on API version. Try reading this article https://proandroiddev.com/change-language-programmatically-at-runtime-on-android-5e6bc15c758 – Antonis Radz Mar 25 '19 at 13:15
have look [this](https://stackoverflow.com/q/40221711/5110595) – Hemant Parmar Mar 25 '19 at 13:22
I have tried that link @HemantParmar ,didnt go well for me – Daniel Jr McCoy Mar 25 '19 at 13:27

Locale Changed, but String Resources are not updating

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