Enable localization (Android)

The Android or Fire TV SDK selects the appropriate string from one of the available string tables. The SDK searches the string tables in the following order:

• Main bundle string tables in the app
• String tables in the Android or Fire TV SDK
• English string tables in the Android or Fire TV SDK.

By creating a string table for a language, you can customize the displayed string for menus, title bars, and strings in many other interfaces. Your language-specific string table will override the string tables in the Android or Fire TV SDK.

You can create string tables for any language, allowing you to customize the video experience for your global users.

Requirement

• Android 4.3.0+

Enable localization

Language-specific Strings Table

Use the following video and steps to create a language-specific strings table.

1. In Android Studio, right click on res package. A menu appears.
2. Click New > Android Resource File. The New Resource File popup window appears
3. In the File Name field, enter strings.
4. Under Available qualifiers, select Locale.
5. Click >> to add the Locale qualifier to Chosen qualifiers.
6. Select a Language.
7. Select a Specific Region Only.
8. Click OK. A strings.xml file is created for the language and the open file appears in the main panel.
9. Populate strings.xml with language-specific strings for the player. Refer to the String Table to see the list of customizable strings in the player.

Google IM

By default, Google IMA uses the language specified in the user’s default settings.

Use the following steps to override the default settings:

1. Create an ImaSdkSettings object.
2. Use setLanguage() to define the two-letter language code.

// Create and configure the ImaSdkSettings object
ImaSdkSettings imaSdkSettings = ImaSdkFactory.getInstance().createImaSdkSettings();
imaSdkSettings.setLanguage("el");

Localization Reference

Default Supported Languages

Both SDKs supports localization for the languages in the following table.

String Table

The following table lists all strings that can be customized for a language-specific string table. The default English string is listed for each string.