Localizable assets in Android

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I just found a nice tutorial that will help me implement an easy user guide system in my application, as I will be able to draw it with any plain old HTML editor.

My question is simple: since all resources are localizable, I can easily translate my application into new languages. What about assets? Is there an automatic localization mechanism? I don't think so.

How do I retrieve system locale in order to construct a localized URL when loading the help page's HTML file? Is there some call to retrieve display size/density the same as coded in the resources world (ie. public String getDensity() returns "xhdpi", "ldpi"...)?

Danke ;-)

score 18 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 22 '12 at 23:19

If you really need to check current system locale, one simple way to do it is to add an identifier string in your strings.xml files.

For example, in values/strings.xml, add:

<string name="lang">en</string>

in values-es/strings.xml, add:

<string name="lang">es</string>

in values-fr/strings.xml, add:

<string name="lang">fr</string>

and so on. Then you'll be able to check current language programmatically with something like this (to be improved of course, just as an example):

if( "es".equals( getString(R.string.lang) ) ) {

I hope this helps you.

If you want to get the selected language of your device, this might help you: Locale.getDefault().getDisplayLanguage(); — Alan, Nov 07 '16 at 17:55

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 04 '15 at 09:16

It is an old question, but just in case someone is doing this. I don't think you need an extra language string as suggested above:

<string name="lang">fr</string>

Simply add the assets URL string and translate it:

<string name="content_location">file:///android_asset/en/index.html</string>

in values-fr/strings.xml, add:

<string name="content_location">file:///android_asset/fr/index.html</string>

and then in the code access it as:

String URL = getResources().getString(R.string.content_location);

and this should display the URL based on the local since you defined it into the specific localized string files.

hi.. so we need to create a folder called as en and fr? – Shadow Mar 31 '17 at 06:51 — Shadow, Mar 31 '17 at 06:51

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 22 '12 at 21:58

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See reference to android.view.Display class (reference) and java.util.Locale class (reference)

answered Mar 22 '12 at 21:58

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score 1 · Answer 4 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:02

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Look the answer here, especially notice the comment.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:02

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answered Mar 29 '12 at 20:23

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