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

public void setLocale(final Context ctx, final String lang) {
    AppSettings.getInstance(ctx).save(PrefKeys.language, lang);
    final Locale loc = new Locale(lang);
    Locale.setDefault(loc);
    final Configuration cfg = new Configuration();
    cfg.locale = loc;
    ctx.getResources().updateConfiguration(cfg, null);
}

Change to English: setLocale(getActivity(), "en";

Change to Arabic : setLocale(getActivity(), "ar");

After this you need to restart the application to get the Language change effects.