Textview Not Changing When Changing Locale Of App

I am trying to change the locale of application when selecting options from the onOptionsItemSelected. When I try to do so, the language gets successfully changed in the same menu.

Solution 1:

Try this use finish(); after restarting your activity

Intent refresh = newIntent(this, MainActivity.class);
startActivity(refresh);
finish();

Solution 2:

There are two different approaches:

1. Without Activity restart:

• Set android:configChanges="locale" in your <activity> in manifest

• Change your setLocale as follows:

  privatevoidsetLocale(String lang) {
          LocalemyLocale=newLocale(lang);
          Resourcesres= getResources();
          DisplayMetricsdm= res.getDisplayMetrics();
          Configurationconf= res.getConfiguration();
          conf.locale = myLocale;
          res.updateConfiguration(conf, dm);
          getBaseContext().getResources().updateConfiguration(conf, getBaseContext().getResources().getDisplayMetrics());
          invalidateOptionsMenu();
          onConfigurationChanged(conf);//Add this line
      }
  

• Override onConfigurationChanged():

  @OverridepublicvoidonConfigurationChanged(final Configuration newConfig) {
          super.onConfigurationChanged(newConfig);
          textView.setText(<your-text>);
          //Any other UI text to change
      }
  

This will ensure your locale is changed correctly.

2. Recreate the activity:

Instead of

Intent refresh = newIntent(this, MainActivity.class);
startActivity(refresh);
finish();

CALL

recreate();

This will cause this Activity to be recreated with a new instance.