I'm wanted to know if there any way i could set the default language of the virtual keyboard of an EditText
in Android
?
Every time i get focus on my EditText
it opens the virtual keyboard with my native language instead of English.
I guess it something with the device settings, but if there is a way to program that in Android
development that would be terrific.
LocaleHelper
” is the solution all you need. You just have to initialize locale on your application’s main class. After that all your language changes will persist.
In application class make following changes:
public class MainApplication extends Application {
@Override
public void onCreate() {
super.onCreate();
LocaleHelper.onCreate(this, "en");
}
}
LocalHelper.java will be:
public class LocaleHelper {
private static final String SELECTED_LANGUAGE = "Locale.Helper.Selected.Language";
public static void onCreate(Context context) {
String lang = getPersistedData(context, Locale.getDefault().getLanguage());
setLocale(context, lang);
}
public static void onCreate(Context context, String defaultLanguage) {
String lang = getPersistedData(context, defaultLanguage);
setLocale(context, lang);
}
public static String getLanguage(Context context) {
return getPersistedData(context, Locale.getDefault().getLanguage());
}
public static void setLocale(Context context, String language) {
persist(context, language);
updateResources(context, language);
}
private static String getPersistedData(Context context, String defaultLanguage) {
SharedPreferences preferences = PreferenceManager.getDefaultSharedPreferences(context);
return preferences.getString(SELECTED_LANGUAGE, defaultLanguage);
}
private static void persist(Context context, String language) {
SharedPreferences preferences = PreferenceManager.getDefaultSharedPreferences(context);
SharedPreferences.Editor editor = preferences.edit();
editor.putString(SELECTED_LANGUAGE, language);
editor.apply();
}
private static void updateResources(Context context, String language) {
Locale locale = new Locale(language);
Locale.setDefault(locale);
Resources resources = context.getResources();
Configuration configuration = resources.getConfiguration();
configuration.locale = locale;
resources.updateConfiguration(configuration, resources.getDisplayMetrics());
}
}
For detail description you refer this link.
Hope it will help you.