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Asked: 2026-05-31T22:40:53+00:00

I just found a nice tutorial that will help me implement an easy user

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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 😉

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  1. Editorial Team

    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.

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