Locale not set Programatically in Android 5.0 Lollipop

Question

My application set locale according to selected language in application. Up to Kitkat my code works fine. After update to Lollipop locale was not set. Here i paste my code to set locale..

Locale locale = new Locale("de_DE");
Locale.setDefault(locale);
Configuration config = new Configuration();
config.locale = locale;
getBaseContext().getResources().updateConfiguration(config, null);

Answer 1

You have to change the way of the locale initialization. From this:

Locale locale = new Locale("de_DE");

to this:

String language = "de";
String country = "DE";
Locale locale = new Locale(language , country);

Check out the full response here https://stackoverflow.com/a/27490553/2659558

Cheers!

Answer 2

you can set locale to application by using following code.

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Locale locale = new Locale("de", "DE");
Locale.setDefault(locale);
Configuration config = new Configuration();
config.locale = locale;
getBaseContext().getResources().updateConfiguration(config, null);

Answer 3

Check out Lollipop Set Default local does not work Try using just the language code "de" rather than "de_DE".

Answer 4

you can use this code:

 public static final String COUNTRY_EN = "GB";
  public static final String LANG_EN = "en";


country=COUNTRY_EN ;
lang=LANG_EN ;
Locale myLocale = new Locale(lang, country);
Locale.setDefault(myLocale);
Resources res = context.getResources();
DisplayMetrics dm = res.getDisplayMetrics();
Configuration conf = res.getConfiguration();
conf.setLayoutDirection(myLocale);
conf.locale = myLocale;
res.updateConfiguration(conf, dm);