Android localization question

Question

I'm in the process of translating an app. Looking at this, I can see that a lot of countries have several codes for language.

I tried making a folder named values-nb, for Norwegian Bokmål. I changed the locale on my phones to Norway. This worked on my Sony Ericson Xperia 8, but not on the Samsung Galaxy Tab.

I then tried renaming the folder to values-no. It now works on the galaxy tab, but not on the xperia. I create both folders, and it works. But then I have to put the same file in each folder!

What if someone chose Norwegian Nynorsk, would I have to create yet another folder so that they don't default to English but get the Norwegian text? values-nn?

I guess my question is this: How do I get this to work? Can I make all these folders and then make them reference the values-no? Please help :)

Answer 1

There's no way under the current search rules to just have a localization for a specific country and be able to search all languages. At least that's my understanding from reading the pages at http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/resources/localization.html You would need to create values-nn-rNO, values-nb-rNO, and values-no-rNO and have duplicate strings.xml entries.

I haven't tried this, but look into string aliases at http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/resources/providing-resources.html#AliasResources