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

Native RTL support in Android 4.2

    public static ComponentOrientation getOrientation(Locale locale) 
    {
            // A more flexible implementation would consult a ResourceBundle
            // to find the appropriate orientation.  Until pluggable locales
            // are introduced however, the flexiblity isn't really needed.
            // So we choose efficiency instead.
            String lang = locale.getLanguage();
            if( "iw".equals(lang) || "ar".equals(lang)
                || "fa".equals(lang) || "ur".equals(lang) )
            {
                return RIGHT_TO_LEFT;
            } else {
                return LEFT_TO_RIGHT;
            }
    }