Multilingual strings are not displaying in app

Question

I had this setting in gradle
I had uploaded .aab playstore.
The app is multilingual namely English and Bahasa

android {
    // When building Android App Bundles, the splits block is ignored.
    splits {...}

    // Instead, use the bundle block to control which types of configuration APKs
    // you want your app bundle to support.
    bundle {
        language {
            // Specifies that the app bundle should not support
            // configuration APKs for language resources. These
            // resources are instead packaged with each base and
            // dynamic feature APK.
            enableSplit = true
        }
        density {
            // This property is set to true by default.
            enableSplit = true
        }
        abi {
            // This property is set to true by default.
            enableSplit = true
        }
    }
}

Problem: Once I downloaded app from play-store i can just see English strings in app and Bahasa language is not coming when I switch the language

Question : Does specifying language-split = true causing this

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 04 '19 at 05:39

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Everything you're doing is okay, it seems that when your device doesn't contains specified language you selected from app (I.e. language settings from App), Play core library fails to fetch that resources for you because your device doesn't support that Locale.

So, the solution is to manually request for it to download that resources for you.

You can do that by making request to SplitsInstallManager.

Create your new SplitsInstallRequest and provide it to SplitsInstallManager so that it would provide that resources for you.

Check out code snippet below:

// Creates a request to download and install additional language resources.
val request = SplitInstallRequest.newBuilder()
    // Uses the addLanguage() method to include French language resources in the request.
    // Note that country codes are ignored. That is, if your app
    // includes resources for “fr-FR” and “fr-CA”, resources for both
    // country codes are downloaded when requesting resources for "fr".
    .addLanguage(Locale.forLanguageTag("your language code here"))
    .build()

// Submits the request to install the additional language resources.
splitInstallManager.startInstall(request)

Refer here about more details.

answered Sep 04 '19 at 05:39

Jeel Vankhede

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How do you change your language? Is it from settings page of your app? If yes, when language changes, request it manually from there. – Jeel Vankhede Sep 04 '19 at 06:21
I am using `LocaleHelper.setLocale(context, language);` from within the app to change the language – Devrath Sep 04 '19 at 06:55
Yes, you can then request for your locale from SplitsIntallRequest. – Jeel Vankhede Sep 04 '19 at 07:07
Yes, because aab works with splits apks. So there are multiple apk files based on configurations and dynamic modules. – Jeel Vankhede Sep 04 '19 at 07:09
Cant I just use `language { enableSplit = false }` – Devrath Sep 04 '19 at 07:11
No, this won't take effect when you've not that language added in default languages. Refer this question also : https://stackoverflow.com/q/52731670/10271334 – Jeel Vankhede Sep 04 '19 at 07:17

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 06 '19 at 05:09

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@Jael ... Has a good answer which he shared which I was not aware of so [+1] for the help

But I could resolve this by

language { enableSplit = false }

answered Sep 06 '19 at 05:09

Devrath

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Multilingual strings are not displaying in app

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