Disable localization in Android application

Question

Is there any way to disable localization in an Android application? It must use only English strings. We have library projects with French localized strings. Some apps that

Answer 1

Android's normal behavior is that you define a given language only if you support it. For french this would be values-fr/strings.xml. If you don't want to support french don't include the strings.xml for french and it will fall back to the strings.xml in the values folder

http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/resources/localization.html

If you don't have control over the provided strings or if you want to dynamically set the locales to support you can override the default locale.

http://developer.android.com/reference/java/util/Locale.html#setDefault(java.util.Locale)

EDIT

What I forgot to mention is that you have to update your configuration with the new config

Configuration config = new Configuration();
config.locale = locale;
getBaseContext().getResources().updateConfiguration(config,getBaseContext().getResources().getDisplayMetrics());