android US Locale not working

Question

I have the following problem:

I want to change the language of my app programmatically.

So I used shared Preferences to change the locale.

        Locale locale2 = new Locale("b0"); 
        Locale.setDefault(locale2);
        Configuration config2 = new Configuration();
        config2.locale = locale2;
        getBaseContext().getResources().updateConfiguration(config2, getBaseContext().getResources().getDisplayMetrics());

b0 is the saved local.

b0 is working flawlessly with the German locale de and the English locale en , but not with the US one: en_US

Ofcourse I added a new folder:

res/values-en-rUS

With the american strings xml.

If I change the Language of my Phone to English (United States), the App starts with American English.

I even edited my lines to:

            Locale locale2 = new Locale("en_US");

Still not working.

Is Anything wrong with "en_US"?

http://developer.android.com/reference/java/util/Locale.html

Any Help is very much accepted.

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:23

I just found the answer (see the javadoc).

In your case, you should write:

Locale locale2 = new Locale("en","US");

The general function, in scala-based language, would be the following:

val locale = if(name contains '_') {
  val splitted = sign.split("_")
  new Locale(splitted(0),splitted(1))
} else {
  new Locale(name); 
}

Else it defines a new language code en_us which is not what you want.

android US Locale not working

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