Question

I’m a forcing a locale after option changes:

public void forceLocale(Context ctx) {
    Locale.setDefault(getCurrentLocale());
    Configuration config = new Configuration();
    config.locale = getCurrentLocale();
    ctx.getResources().updateConfiguration(config, ctx.getResources().getDisplayMetrics());   
}

I’d like the current activity to be displayed in a new Locale, but it doesen’t happen. It’s the same for the other activities.

I tried invalidate on onResume() of all my activities:

protected void onResume() {
    //if no custom locale, restore default
    if (StaticClass.locale.getCurrentLocale() == null)
        StaticClass.locale.restoreDefaultLocale();

    //force curretnt locale
    StaticClass.locale.forceLocale(this);

    //reload the view
    ViewGroup vg = (ViewGroup) findViewById(android.R.id.content);
    vg.invalidate();

    super.onResume();
}

No effect. The app gets translated after it gets wiped out from memory and restarted

Answer 1

Do you have the locale attribute set in your manifest android:configChanges="locale"? I also added this to my onCreate() in each activity

if (Globals.langConfig != null)
this.onConfigurationChanged(Globals.langConfig);

then I override the onConfigurationChanged() in each activity

  @Override
        public void onConfigurationChanged(Configuration newConfig) {
         newConfig = Globals.getUserLanguage(this);

super.onConfigurationChanged(newConfig);

This may not be the best way but has worked for me for now. If you don’t already, I think overriding the onConfigurationChanged() method may be your biggest problem