How to switch back to system default locales?

Hi,

I’m considering to use this library in my projects but I didn’t find way how to switch back to original system settings? What value should be set to updateLocale method if I don’t want to override system settings anymore?

Rationale: users may try this feature but find that localization to any language from the list does not fit them. So they want to return back to original state before they tried the feature. But I don’t know how to implement that.

Thanks for your help Tom

[hiddeneyes02]

You can pass the locale below to achieve what you want:

ConfigurationCompat.getLocales(Resources.getSystem().configuration)[0]

[gunhansancar]

Hi @thubalek,

It is pretty rare scenario but it is easy to handle. Because if you give the user option to change language on the fly you present them let say x amount of languages. When they select a language they can always select their native language from the list again.

So if you want to mark the system language for the user for instance, you can do that easily. When the app first loads, the Locale is filled statically by the system default. So Locale.getDefault() returns the system language at the beginning. The idea is you save this information somewhere and use it later on. If this is useful I can directly return it from the library itself actually.

In your custom Application class, override the attachBaseContext method and before calling the super save the systemLocale.

    override fun attachBaseContext(base: Context) {
        val systemLocale = Locale.getDefault()
        super.attachBaseContext(localeAppDelegate.attachBaseContext(base))
    }

After that point though, Locale is overridden by the library.