Resources and layout direction rendered incorrectly only on Android 8.0 and above

Question

I have a multilingual app with primary language English and secondary language Arabic.

I am calling setLocale() in the onCreate() of every

Answer 1

The updateConfiguration() method was deprecated

Now we need to use createConfigurationContext()

I have managed this way

create a new class ContextWrapper

import android.content.Context;
import android.content.res.Configuration;
import android.content.res.Resources;
import android.os.Build;
import android.os.LocaleList;

import java.util.Locale;

public class ContextWrapper extends android.content.ContextWrapper {

    public ContextWrapper(Context base) {
        super(base);
    }

    public static ContextWrapper wrap(Context context, Locale newLocale) {

        Resources res = context.getResources();
        Configuration configuration = res.getConfiguration();

        if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.N) {
            configuration.setLocale(newLocale);

            LocaleList localeList = new LocaleList(newLocale);
            LocaleList.setDefault(localeList);
            configuration.setLocales(localeList);

            context = context.createConfigurationContext(configuration);

        } else if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.JELLY_BEAN_MR1) {
            configuration.setLocale(newLocale);
            context = context.createConfigurationContext(configuration);

        } else {
            configuration.locale = newLocale;
            res.updateConfiguration(configuration, res.getDisplayMetrics());
        }

        return new ContextWrapper(context);
    }}

create a new class of BaseActivity

import android.content.Context;

import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity;

import java.util.Locale;

/**
 * Created by nilesh on 20/3/18.
 */

public class BaseActivity extends AppCompatActivity {

    @Override
    protected void attachBaseContext(Context newBase) {

        Locale newLocale;

        String lang = new PrefManager(newBase).getLanguage();

        if (lang.equals("zh_CN")) {
            newLocale = new Locale("zh");
        } else {
            newLocale = new Locale(lang);
        }


        Context context = ContextWrapper.wrap(newBase, newLocale);
        super.attachBaseContext(context);
    }
}

Create a PrefManager class to store locale

import android.content.Context;
import android.content.SharedPreferences;

public class PrefManager {

    private SharedPreferences.Editor editor;
    private Context mContext;
    private SharedPreferences prefs;
    private final String LANGUAGE = "language";
    private final String PREF = "user_data";

    public PrefManager(Context mContext) {
        this.mContext = mContext;
    }

    public String getLanguage() {
        this.prefs = this.mContext.getSharedPreferences(PREF, 0);
        return this.prefs.getString(LANGUAGE, "en_US");
    }

    public void setLanguage(String language) {
        this.editor = this.mContext.getSharedPreferences(PREF, 0).edit();
        this.editor.putString(LANGUAGE, language);
        this.editor.apply();
    }

}

Now you need to extends your BaseActivity in your all activity like

public class OrdersActivity extends BaseActivity

Now when your need to change Locale just update the value in PrefManager and restart your activity

    PrefManager prefManager= new PrefManager(this);
    prefManager.setLanguage("zh_CN");
    //  restart your activity

NOTE

You can download source code from github repo