Hey! I’ve tried searching for an answer in here a...

# compose

[Magnus Gudmandsen]

Hey!

I’ve tried searching for an answer in here and elsewhere but I can’t find any questions about it:

When fetching a string from stringResources in compose, it gives me the string for the wrong language. It seems to use the device language always, rather than Locale.getDefault().

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[Magnus Gudmandsen]

So our app has a language chooser. To make this work, we override attachBaseContext in activity, and wrap the context.

This works as expected everywhere else:

Locale.getDefault() returns the overriden language.
Calling getString in Fragment.onStart (or outside onStart) returns the overriden language string

However:
Calling getString inside of a Composable block gives me the string from the device language. Doesn’t matter how I call it: fragment.getString, activity.getString , or using the Compose stringResources function.

[Albert Chang]

See this thread. I think the method there still works.

[Magnus Gudmandsen]

Hey Albert, thanks for the response!

So it turns out just doing the attachBaseContext part actually works, and my issue was 100% unrelated to Compose. It was all due to missing an important step in generating translations in our translation library that we’re using 😅

Thanks for the help anyway 🙂