Going global: building for a multilingual world
summary
Android 13 adds per-app language preferences so apps can appear in Settings and users can pick a language without switching the whole device, backed by the runtime API setApplicationLocales which also supports backward compatibility via AndroidX delegated storage to SDK 14. Practical tips: declare supported locales in manifest and Gradle resource configurations to strip library languages and cut APK size, avoid string concatenation and reused short strings, and use MessageFormat for plurals and ordinals. Examples show a 6‑locale app compiling as 88 before stripping.
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chapters (5)
- 0:00Introduction and multilingual challenges
- 2:53Understanding locales and resources
- 6:27Best practices for translations
- 9:15Per-app language preferences
- 14:48Resources and acknowledgments
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