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Asked: 2026-05-25T16:08:14+00:00

I read this sentence Android 2.3 added support for right-to-left (RTL) languages and now

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I read this sentence ” Android 2.3 added support for right-to-left (RTL) languages”
and now I want to add RTL support to my app. But I do not know what is qualifiers to add to my layouts.

About res/values/strings.xml , I can named like this res/values-ar/strings.xml

I want to have different layout for RLT languages. I do not want to have just different strings , I also want different layout. What the layout folder name should look like ?

At this moment for the left to right languages it is named
res/lauyots/main.xml
but I do not know how to name it for RTL languages

Is this kind qualifier is present at all ?

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  1. Editorial Team

    @Silwek is right. This is his answer, I am merely putting it here because my answer has been marked as answered.

    res/layout-ldltr/ (Left to Right, default value)
res/layout-ldrtl/ (Right to Left)

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    Check Localization and Multiple Screen Support, they give you idea about resource folders and qualifiers.

    You can use locale specific resources and layout like this:

    For language specific resources:

    res/values/strings.xml
res/values-fr/strings.xml (French)
res/values-ja/strings.xml (Japanese)

    For language specific layouts:

    res/layout-fr/main.xml
res/layout-ar/main.xml
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