Change locale in android app (onto Hindi) -

creating multi languages support app possibility change language in app settings.

as works fine english, spanish, franch, russian languages, doesn't work hindi , chineese.

1) specify language name in original language in app instead of हिन्दी can see "hindi".

\res\values-hi\arrays.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <resources>      <string-array name="languages">         <item name="english">english</item>         <item name="russian">Русский</item>         <item name="spanish">espagnol</item>         <item name="russian">français</item>         <item name="chineese">中国</item>         <item name="hindi">हिन्दी</item>     </string-array>     <string-array name="languagesvalues">          <item name="english">en</item>         <item name="russian">ru</item>         <item name="spanish">es</item>         <item name="russian">fr</item>         <item name="chineese">zh-cn</item>         <item name="hindi">hi</item>     </string-array>  </resources> 

2) end after selecting "hindi" - default (english) being selected.
\res\values-hi\strings.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <resources>      <string name="app_name">लकी बीनने</string>     <string name="score">0000</string>     <string name="settings">सेटिंग</string>     <string name="start_button">प्रारंभ</string>     <string name="about_button">के बारे में</string>     <string name="about">लियोनिद द्वारा बनाया गया</string>     <string name="feedback">प्रतिक्रिया भेजें </string>     <string name="high_score">उच्च स्कोर के</string>     <string name="score_set">स्कोर निर्धारित किया गया है \r\nमें:</string>     <string name="game_over">खेल खत्म</string> 

....

saving locale in preferences.

public class settings extends preferenceactivity {      locale mylocale;     static boolean localechanged;      @override     protected void oncreate(bundle savedinstancestate) {         super.oncreate(savedinstancestate);         addpreferencesfromresource(r.xml.preferences);           // language changing         preference langpreference = getpreferencescreen().findpreference(                 "language");         langpreference.setonpreferencechangelistener(languagechangelistener);     }      preference.onpreferencechangelistener languagechangelistener = new onpreferencechangelistener() {          @override         public boolean onpreferencechange(preference preference, object newvalue) {              switch (newvalue.tostring()) {             case "en":                 setlocale("en");                 break;              case "ru":                 setlocale("ru");                 break;              case "fr":                 setlocale("fr");                 break;              case "es":                 setlocale("es");                 break;              case "zh-cn":                 setlocale("zh-cn");                 break;              case "hi":                 setlocale("hi");                 break;              }              localechanged = true;             return true;         }     };      // * manually changing locale/     public void setlocale(string lang) {         mylocale = new locale(lang);         resources res = getresources();         displaymetrics dm = res.getdisplaymetrics();         configuration conf = res.getconfiguration();         conf.locale = mylocale;         res.updateconfiguration(conf, dm);         intent refresh = new intent(this, settings.class);         startactivity(refresh);         finish();     } 

what wrong?

it depends on device. once check device supports hindi language going settings --> language & input.