Any way to set the default language?

[magar91]

In my app I have two languages spanish and english but I want to make spanish the default language in case that the device has any other language. Is there any way to set a default language?

[rborn]

I'm not sure, I'll have to investigate :)

[ahmedelgendy]

+1

[lukashlobil]

I haven't investigated for iOS, but this is postinstall for Android. English is forced to be default language.

if (lang === 'en') {
    outputFile = path.join(appResourcesDirectoryPath, 'Android', 'values', 'strings.xml');
} else {
    outputFile = path.join(appResourcesDirectoryPath, 'Android', 'values-' + lang, 'strings.xml');
}

Removing the if clause enables english not to default (there would be values-en). Then we'd need to read the default language string (ie. from package.json) and do the if clause for that language.

[rborn]

@lukashlobil yes, this is the approach I wanna take, only that I was very busy. Gimme few days to try to find some time to do this 😄

[rborn]

@lukashlobil actually if you look into https://github.com/rborn/nativescript-i18n/blob/custom_lang_path/lib/before-prepare.js#L12 I already did this for #28

[lukashlobil]

@rborn oh, cool!
I forked it and implemented default language (settable in package.json) both with custom location and without custom location. Looks good so far. I will do some tests, fix formatting and will do PR tomorrow . Let me know what you think if you can.

[rborn]

@lukashlobil looks good 😄

if you want you can bump the version to 0.1.0 (as I think the module can be considered out of beta now), update the readme with the info about the defaultLang and I'll review the PR and push it to npm if all ok.

thanks again 👍