Changing locale: Force activity to reload resources?

Question

So I have a language setting in my application. When the language is switched, I would like all the textviews etc to change language immediately. Currently I just change the locale in the configuration, so the language has changed when the user restarts the activity.

An ugly solution to my problem would be to make each textview load the new resources each time the language is changed. Is there a better solution? Perhaps a neat way to discretely restart the activity? Or maybe just force reload of the resources?

Answer 1

In your AndroidManifest.xml, add this attribute to your Activity

android:configChanges="locale" 

In your activity override onConfigurationChanged()

@Override public void onConfigurationChanged(Configuration newConfig) {   // refresh your views here   super.onConfigurationChanged(newConfig); } 

https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/manifest/activity-element.html#config

Answer 2

I think the question is switching language in runtime for the app and displaying localized messages in UI. android:configChanges="locale" calls onConfigurationChanged if the system locale is changed (in setting of your device) while the app is running, and not if you change locale in the code for your app, which I guess is what you want to accomplish. That's why it's not refreshing.