inconsistent language between ui components

[mukswilly]

components of the app that use strings directly in xml eg the layouts correctly respond to language changes, however, Strings pulled by getString(R.string.xxx) remain to the system locale language

[YarikSOffice]

Hi @napsterphantom ,

Do you use context.createConfigurationContext(config) somewhere in your app to create a localized context?

Could you please provide a sample project reproducing the issue since there are a couple of similar issues reported already, but I still can't identify the problem without seeing the code.

Thanks in advance!

[mirrorlarry]

@napsterphantom , I also have the same problem in my app while using this library. Language inconsistency. but it does not always happen.

This is from my Application onCreate() method.
Lingver.init(this, Constants.LOCALE_MYANMAR) val language = pref.getLocaleLanguage(Constants.KEY_LOCALE_LANGUAGE, Constants.LOCALE_MYANMAR) Lingver.getInstance().setLocale(this, language)

Setting.. when user changes the langauge.

pref.saveToSharedPref(Constants.KEY_LOCALE_LANGUAGE, list[selectedItem].first) Lingver.getInstance().setLocale(this, list[selectedItem].first) dialog.dismiss() val i = Intent(this, SplashScreenActivity::class.java) startActivity(i.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TASK or Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK)) System.exit(0)
Thanks

[aconsuegra]

I can consistently reproduce this issue if device language is different than the one chosen in the app and then I open any browser intent and come back to the app. Any possible workaround?

[YarikSOffice]

@aconsuegra could you clarify what is your browser intent?
do you open a build-in WebView or intent for an external browser like Google Chrome?

there is a caveat while using web view, you can read more on that in the README.

[YarikSOffice]

@mirrorlarry I see an issue in your sample code. After setting a locale you immediately kill the app process by System.exit(0), potentially preventing shared preferences to successfully persist the setting since it's done asynchronously (on a background thread).

For most of the cases, just restarting the activity back stack (FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TASK/FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK) is enough to apply new locale, no need to restart a whole app process.

If you indeed need to restart a whole process, you can provide a custom implementation for LocaleStore and persist the setting synchronously just before killing the app.

[aconsuegra]

@YarikSOffice You are right, my issue is solved after applying the suggested fix

[mirrorlarry]

@napsterphantom , I also have the same problem in my app while using this library. Language inconsistency. but it does not always happen.

This is from my Application onCreate() method.
Lingver.init(this, Constants.LOCALE_MYANMAR) val language = pref.getLocaleLanguage(Constants.KEY_LOCALE_LANGUAGE, Constants.LOCALE_MYANMAR) Lingver.getInstance().setLocale(this, language)

Setting.. when user changes the langauge.

pref.saveToSharedPref(Constants.KEY_LOCALE_LANGUAGE, list[selectedItem].first) Lingver.getInstance().setLocale(this, list[selectedItem].first) dialog.dismiss() val i = Intent(this, SplashScreenActivity::class.java) startActivity(i.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TASK or Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK)) System.exit(0)
Thanks

@aconsuegra could you clarify what is your browser intent?
do you open a build-in WebView or intent for an external browser like Google Chrome?

there is a caveat while using web view, you can read more on that in the README.

@mirrorlarry I see an issue in your sample code. After setting a locale you immediately kill the app process by System.exit(0), potentially preventing shared preferences to successfully persist the setting since it's done asynchronously (on a background thread).

For most of the cases, just restarting the activity back stack (FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TASK/FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK) is enough to apply new locale, no need to restart a whole app process.

If you indeed need to restart a whole process, you can provide a custom implementation for LocaleStore and persist the setting synchronously just before killing the app.

Thank you

[jemshit]

In my case it was initialize Admob lately, instead of inside App#onCreate.
I don't know what they doing in that method and causing bug.

[SergiiLitvinenko]

Had similar problems after Webwiew was opened inside app. Some ui elements like button texts were not translated. Calling Lingver.getInstance().setLocale(...) in onCreateView of Fragment with Webwiew solved the problem

[sarankumar-ns]

I also faced this issue. For my use case, I used Custom Tab Intent by androidx browser library to launch the URL.