Identifying RTL language in Android

Question

Is there a way to identify RTL (right-to-left) language, apart from testing language code against all RTL languages?

Since API 17+ allows several resources for RTL a

Answer 1

There's a really simple way to check the layout direction of a view, but it falls back to LTR on pre API 17 devices:

ViewUtils.isLayoutRtl(View view);

the ViewUtils class comes bundled with the support v7 library, so it should be available already if you're using the appcompat library.