How to Customise android Os For supporting regional launguages

[kariyachan]

How to customize Android Os for supporting regional languages???

I was wondering what the feasibility would be for creating a custom
Android build

and deploying it on a currently available device on the
market ....????


Opinion about which language,Sdk,other things i need to use .All are
welcome

I don't know where to start .I need Advice from experts


Thanks for your valuable time........


Regards,
Kariyachan

[Ying Wang]

In your product configuration makefile, add the locale by:

PRODUCT_LOCALES += xx_XX

You should check if your locale has been supported by the android platform by examing if xx_XX is in

build/target/product/languages_full.mk

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[kariyachan]

Hi ying wang,

Thanks for the quick reply .Currently Android system(Ginger
bread) does not support that regional language .
All I want is to , change the whole system language of android.
setting it by

Changing language and keyboard settings--> Select locale-->my
regional language


I got a Android application development background I am pretty new
to this So where should i start????

Is it simple or complex???

Thanks for your valuable time


Regards,
Kariyachan

On Dec 20, 1:46 pm, Ying Wang <wangy...@android.com> wrote:
> In your product configuration makefile, add the locale by:
> PRODUCT_LOCALES += xx_XX
> You should check if your locale has been supported by the android platform
> by examing if xx_XX is in
> build/target/product/languages_full.mk
>

> On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 2:13 AM, kariyachan <sintotp.foresi...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
> > How to customize Android Os for supporting regional languages???
>
> > I was wondering what the feasibility would be for creating a custom
> > Android build
>
> > and deploying it on a currently available device on the
> > market ....????
>
> > Opinion about which language,Sdk,other things  i need to use .All are
> > welcome
>
> > I don't know where to start .I need Advice from experts
>
> > Thanks for your valuable time........
>
> > Regards,
> > Kariyachan
>
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[Jean-Baptiste Queru]

What you're trying to do isn't current possible at the level of
application development. You need to be building your own version of
Android with the languages you want.

This is where AOSP defines that list of locales for the "full" builds
in the master branch:
http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=platform/build.git;a=blob;f=target/product/locales_full.mk

Adding a language boils down to adding translations in the various
resource directories around the source tree, enabling that language in
the list of locales, and doing a full re-build. See e.g. the directory
structure for the translations in the Calculator:
http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=platform/packages/apps/Calculator.git;a=tree;f=res

Really though, before you start working on that, you need to first get
to the point where you can build AOSP and run it on a phone.

JBQ

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