Android: How to get string in specific locale WITHOUT changing the current locale

Question

Use Case: Logging error messages as displayed to the user.

However you don\'t want to have messages in your log that depend on the locale of the user\'s device. On t

Answer 1

Thanks to @Khaled Lela answer, I've made a Kotlin extension:

fun Context.getStringByLocale(@StringRes stringRes: Int, locale: Locale, vararg formatArgs: Any): String {
    val configuration = Configuration(resources.configuration)
    configuration.setLocale(locale)
    return createConfigurationContext(configuration).resources.getString(stringRes, *formatArgs)
}

And I'm using directly within an Activity, Fragment or Context related classes, just simply calling:

getStringByLocale(R.string.my_text, Locale.UK) or with arguments:

getStringByLocale(R.string.my_other_text, Locale.RU, arg1, arg2, arg3)