[TIMOB-20527] Android (Tooling): Support setting source for the default strings

GitHub Issue	n/a
Type	New Feature
Priority	Medium
Status	Open
Resolution	Unresolved
Affected Version/s	n/a
Fix Version/s	n/a
Components	Tooling
Labels	android, cb-tooling, i18n, internationalization, parity
Reporter	Fokke Zandbergen
Assignee	Chris Barber
Created	2014-02-02T18:51:41.000+0000
Updated	2020-01-30T11:28:03.000+0000

Description

The Titanium CLI always assumes English (en) as the default language for an app. When using a i18n folder, you must always have en/strings.xml as well, or the default build/android/res/values/strings.xml will only contain app_name and thus give errors reporting missing strings when running the app on a non-Dutch system. In iOS you can set the default language using:

<dict>
    <key>CFBundleDevelopmentRegion</key>
    <string>nl_NL</string>
</dict>

For Android, it would be nice to have a ti.android.defaultLanguage property so you can determine the language where the CLI will look for strings for build/android/res/values/strings.xml. Steps to reproduce: 1. Create a new Android project: ti create -p android -n strings --id test.strings -d . 2. Create a Dutch i18n strings.xml at i18n/nl/strings.xml

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
    <resources>
	<string name="hello_world">Hallo wereld!</string>
    </resources>

3. Build the project: ti build -p android -b 4. Check out build/android/res/values/strings.xml and build/android/res/values-nl/strings.xml and see the first only contains app_name.

Comments

Ritu Agrawal 2014-02-03

Moving this improvement request to engineering for further evaluation and prioritization as I can reproduce the stated behavior.

Fokke Zandbergen 2014-02-03

Workaround for Alloy projects:

   task("pre:load", function(event,logger) {
   	var path = require('path'),
   		fs = require('fs'),
   		wrench = require('wrench');
   
   	var DEFAULT = 'nl'; // set your default locale here
   
   	wrench.copyDirSyncRecursive(path.join(event.dir.project, 'i18n', DEFAULT), path.join(event.dir.project, 'i18n', 'en'));
   });

Rene Pot 2017-09-13

Can we get an update on this ticket? Would be great to set a default language for android apps
Brian García 2019-07-10

pinging...
Hans Knöchel 2019-07-10

Can't be very hard. New 1st class property <default-locale /> together with some CLI logic to handle it.

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