How to set up multiple languages ​​on Android

[Trafitto]

Hello,
I wanted to know if there is a way to set the multilanguage on Android

Thanks!!

[zorg]

If your question is can you code your app to support multiple languages, then yes, if you code it as such.

[Trafitto]

Ok, so is there nothing already made ? I have to make the folder res/values/strings.xml and handle by myself ?

[zorg]

I think there might be a misconception here, or we're talking about two different things.

Löve works the same on all platforms it supports, Android and iOS included; you have your data in the .love file, which is a renamed zip, and for android, you build an application with that included with the löve app so it runs your own project (or, for development purposes, you just download the plain löve app, and there's a single folder where you can put your code and resources to develop/test).

I found the below link, and i don't think that's needed for whatever you want to accomplish; multi-language support with löve can work in a myriad ways.
http://android.tutorialhorizon.com/what-is-strings-xml/

For example, here's a lib one could use:
https://github.com/kikito/i18n.lua

[raidho36]

You can do something as simple as

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selected_language = "EN"
text = require ( "text/" .. selected_language .. "/dialogue123.lua" )
love.graphics.print ( text.greeting, 100, 100 )

Where the dialogue file returns a Lua table with relevant entries.

[Trafitto]

Thanks everyone, i was wondaring that if i wouldnt use the "android way" to handle multi language my app wouldnt be recognized properly multi language by the play store

[Ulydev]

Thanks everyone, i was wondaring that if i wouldnt use the "android way" to handle multi language my app wouldnt be recognized properly multi language by the play store

I believe using ffi or digging into the Java code you could implement a function that returns the phone locale and translate based on that.
Either way there's no such built-in function as far as I know, I might be wrong though.