Allow changing app language via System > Languages > App Languages

[nicolas-raoul]

Android has a standard way to change an app's language:

You can only change the language for apps that support language selection

This does not seem to be possible for our app, it is not in the list.

If that can make implementation of this feature easier, the App user interface language item in our own Settings can be removed.

[krishnagjsForGit]

Can I work on this issue ?

[sivaraam]

If that can make implementation of this feature easier, the App user interface language item in our own Settings can be removed.

I could understand that this would be good thing to support but I believe this is Android 14 specific feature. So, I don't think we could remove the "App user interface language" in the app's Settings just yet. We can get around to it at a later point in time, I suppose 🙂

[nicolas-raoul]

@sivaraam Ah yes, removing will have to wait a good number of years. :-)

[mnalis]

Note that such android-level per-app language chooser might have several problems (some languages, required API level, translation implementation details etc).
See streetcomplete/StreetComplete#5623 (comment) for issues encountered with implementing idea in StreetComplete OSM app (probably not all apply to Commons app, but some might).

[sivaraam]

Thank you for sharing @mnalis ! That does seem like something to be aware of while adding support for this. 👍🏼

[nicolas-raoul]

@krishnagjsForGit I unassign for now, but if you are you still working on this, please let us know. If no answer, someone else may be assigned to it. Thanks a lot. :-)

[Adeeth101]

@nicolas-raoul Actually our team wants to work on 2 issues. Can we first be assigned to this issue and then see if we can also be assigned to issue #5826?