Question

I have a little problem I need to resolve.
In my application I will have a settings where I will change the language of my app from english to swedish and back. So I wonder how I should do this?

Can I change to a different strings.xml file or do I have to change all the text in my strings.xml manually when the user wants to change lanuage?

Please come with tips and examples how I should solve this!

Answer 1

You can do that with this:

String languageToLoad  = "your language code";
Locale locale = new Locale(languageToLoad); 
Locale.setDefault(locale);
Configuration config = new Configuration();
config.locale = locale;
getBaseContext().getResources().updateConfiguration(config, 
getBaseContext().getResources().getDisplayMetrics());

With this you are basically just changing your locale, therefor also your language