Multi Language Support

[jagrutibhadani]

HI.....

I want to develop an iphone application where u can change the language from the application it self rather than iphone setting.

how can it be possible??
Is there any tutorial available for it??

waiting for the responses.

Regards,
Jagruti

[Domele]

The language of your app or the language of the whole phone? The latter is not possible.

[jagrutibhadani]

I want to change the language of application only..not whole iphone..can you give me suggestions??

[Domele]

You'd have to create your own form of NSLocalizedString and give it a third parameter, a NSLocale object. Then have a language picker in your app. I usually don't like to put stuff in the AppDelegate but since language is app wide, you can add a NSLocale property to your app delegate.

[Karl6669]

Use an in app settings page, then save the setting using NSUserDefaults.

ex:

When the user selects their language via a UIPickerView, save the setting like this:

-(void)pickerViewUIPickerView *)pickerView didSelectRowNSInteger)row inComponentNSInteger)component
{
NSUserDefaults *defaults = [NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults];
[defaults setObject:[languageArray objectAtIndex:row] forKey:@"selectedLanguage"];
// Now run whatever code is required to change the text on the screen to the new language.
}

Good luck.