Phonegap local storage

Question

I'm developing a multi-language PhoneGap app and would like to store the user's language preference. On first launch of the app a splash screen would come up with 4 flags, user picks, and then is directed to a landing page in that language. From then on the app load skips the splash screen and goes straight to the landing page in the preferred language. Easy to do? Suggestions? I'm familiar with cookies/local storage but if anyone has done this before I would appreciate specific directions. Thanks.

Answer 1

What you describe should be very easy to do with localStorage. I researched it before using it on Android, and found this webpage to have very helpful code examples and explanations. Very short and sweet.

Answer 2

To save to local storage use:

  function saveLanuageID(languageID)
    window.localStorage.setItem('lang', languageID);

Read from local storage

function readLanguageID(){
if (typeof window.localStorage.getItem('lang')!== 'undefined' &&  window.localStorage.getItem('lang')!=null) {
    return window.localStorage.getItem('lang');
 }
else return false
}

You would have to test for saved language using the code above

if(!readLanguageID())
//redirect to splash