Changing language on the fly, in running iOS, programmatically

Question

I\'ve been stackling and googling for hours. And I\'m kind of desperate now. I would like to change the language of my application inside the app not only with the default l

Answer 1

yes, i had the same problem, then i managed it with my own language setting in my prefFile, where i set a variable for the language setting:

// write a new value in file and set the var
- (void)changeLangInPrefFile:(NSString *)newLanguage {
    NSArray *paths = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSDocumentDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES);
    NSString *documentsDirectory = [paths objectAtIndex:0];
    NSString *path = [documentsDirectory stringByAppendingPathComponent:@"myPreference.plist"];
    NSMutableDictionary *data = [[NSMutableDictionary alloc] initWithContentsOfFile: path];
    //here add elements to data file and write data to file
    [data setObject:newLanguage forKey:@"language"];
    [data writeToFile:path atomically:YES];
    [data release];

// NSString *chosenLang; <- declared in .h file
    if (chosenLang != nil){
        [chosenLang release];
        chosenLang = nil;
    }
    chosenLang = [[NSString alloc] initWithString:(@"%@",newLanguage)];

}

// read the language from file and set the var:
- (void)readFromFileInBundleDocuments {
    NSArray *paths = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSDocumentDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES);
    NSString *documentsDirectory = [paths objectAtIndex:0];
    NSString *path = [documentsDirectory stringByAppendingPathComponent:@"myPreference.plist"];
    NSMutableDictionary *savedStock = [[NSMutableDictionary alloc] initWithContentsOfFile:path];

    NSString *chosenLangTemp = [savedStock objectForKey:@"language"];
    NSLog (@"read in file: %@", chosenLangTemp);
    if (chosenLang != nil){
        [chosenLang release];
        chosenLang = nil;
    }
    chosenLang = [[NSString alloc] initWithString:(@"%@",chosenLangTemp)];
    [savedStock release];
}

then i load all the contents from different files depending on the language for example i can load "an_image_eng.png" or "an_image_ita.png", or have 2 different .xib file and for the text to load i use different dictionary-files, one for each language, with all words/expressions translated, i just load the chosen one and read in it the right expression for every text to be load (the code to load it is similar to the method i wrote in this example, you can just arrange it to read the right word for every expression: just look at the value for objectForKey in the right dictionary file, where objectForKey is the word to translate and its value is the word translated)...