android determine if device is in right to left language/layout

Question

Is there a way to determine if the device is in a right to left language (something like Arabic) as opposed to something that\'s left to right (English)?

Something c

Answer 1

Gr, a little bit longer googling and I would have found it before posting:

if (ViewCompat.getLayoutDirection(getView()) == ViewCompat.LAYOUT_DIRECTION_LTR) {
    // ...
}
else {
    // ...
}

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/support/v4/view/ViewCompat.html#getLayoutDirection(android.view.View)