In xamarin, how to get the current language of the device for Android?

Question

How could I get the current language of the device in Xamarin (for Android)?

Got the language with context.Resources.Configuration.Locale.Language

Solution 1

Here's a cross platform version I use. Obviously you can pull whatever property you need from CurrentUICulture.

return CultureInfo.CurrentUICulture.TwoLetterISOLanguageName;

Maybe it will help someone else.

Solution 2

This appears to be what you are looking for: http://androidapi.xamarin.com/?link=T%3aSystem.Globalization.RegionInfo

The RegionInfo class appears to have access for various ways to read that language information and use in your comparisons.

Based on this question, I went to the Xamarin documentation looking for the answer: Get the current language in device

Comments

[TronicZomB]

mattgemmell.com/2008/12/08/what-have-you-tried

[user769923]

@TronicZomB yes I do not know in Xamarin how to use something like Locale.getDefault().getLanguage()

[user769923]

got the language with context.Resources.Configuration.Locale.Language

[user769923]

Thanks Martin. The RegionInfo can get me some region names. I have got the current language by context.Resources.Configuration.Locale.Language.

[Wtower]

using System.Globalization; Mind that there have been occasional bugs with this.

[user1034912]

@Wtower errr What bug?? Seriously this important for my app!