Quick Notes on Android Localization: Testing your App in a new Language
Check out the video tutorial or follow the instructions below: Begin localizing your app by hardcoding your strings, adding "@string/" and the corresponding id to each text in your layouts and placing all your text in strings.xml under the values folder. Next, in the strings.xml file, select 'Open Editor' in the upper right corner. In the Translations Editor, select the globe icon to add new languages and/or country locales. For reference, you can check untranslatable strings such as the app name. Once the locales are added, these appear next to the default language texts. You can enter the translations or order one. New language xml files will appear with the corresponding language-country flag under the Strings.xml folder within res/values. Now you are ready to check how the translations appear in the emulator. The app will automatically show content language according to the user's language in their device settings. Click 'Custom Loca...