Develop Multilingual Android Application (Hindi)

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Have you ever wondered how to write in Hindi or any other language in Android. In this tutorial we are going to see how to develop multilingual android application.

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1) First of all, create an Android Application Project.

2) Next go to "res/layout/activity_main.xml" and create a TextView there. The code looks like

activity_main.xml

<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:paddingBottom="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
    android:paddingLeft="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
    android:paddingRight="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
    android:paddingTop="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
    tools:context=".MainActivity" >

    <TextView
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:id = "@+id/text" />

</RelativeLayout>

3) Now you need to download the font file of the language you wish to use. For our case its hindi, so i downloaded the "Mangal.ttf" file. You can google for your respective font file.

4) After downloading the font file save it in "assets/font/font_file.ttf" .

5) Next go to "src/your_package_name/MainActivity.java" and paste the below code.

import android.app.Activity;
import android.graphics.Typeface;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.widget.TextView;

public class MainActivity extends Activity {
    TextView text;

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
       
        text = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.text);
        Typeface tf = Typeface.createFromAsset(getAssets(), "font/Mangal.ttf");              
        //TextView tv = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.yourtextview);
        text.setTypeface(tf);
        text.setText("यह एक अच्छा एप्लीकेशन है | इ  लव इट |");
    }

}

Note - You can download and use google input tools for converting english to your respective languages. In our case it was Hindi so i used hindi.

Now we are done. Post your questions in the comment. I will be happy to answer those.

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