How can I change the language inside the app?

[mikeone]

Hi Kostya,

I'm using the latest dev build 1.13.0-710-dev (with Android 8.0 on Sony Xperia XZ) and miss the option to change the language in the settings (formerly under 'Look and feel')

Is this option completely removed or just moved to another section?

Mike

[THS79]

Hello,
Settings
Look and feel
Language

With 710 dev build, too.

Greats,

Thomas

[Kostya Vasilyev]

We had a report of this feature not working - the language getting reset as soon as you open a message - on Android 7.0.

I checked, and found it to be true (checked on two devices, one with 7.0 the other with 8.1).

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Android apps are not supposed to do this. There is a setting in Andorid itself and that's it.

What we did (I did, years ago) was to "get into the internals of Android code" - and when Google made some changes there in 7.0, this stopped working and we can't do anything about it on message view, it's really Google Chrome messing up the "fragile hack" that's not supposed to be there in the first place.

And so, to avoid further complaints, we removed the "custom language" setting if the device is running Android 7.0 or newer.

[mikeone]

Ah, okay, too bad.

[Kostya Vasilyev]

Just the type of thing that happens if you use a "hack" that relies on some "internals" of the operating system to make your users happy ("-er") and then the internals change.

[mikeone]

Just the type of thing that happens if you use a "hack" that relies on some "internals" of the operating system to make your users happy ("-er") and then the internals change.

Unfortunately, that's the way if one depends on another (e.g. operating) system.

[Kostya Vasilyev]

Re: Unfortunately, that's the way if one depends on another (e.g. operating) system.

Unfortunately, that's the way if one depends on the undocumented and unsupported internals of an operating system

[Justin]

We had a report of this feature not working - the language getting reset as soon as you open a message - on Android 7.0.

I checked, and found it to be true (checked on two devices, one with 7.0 the other with 8.1.

I can not confirm this in Android 7, as long as I closed AquaMail completely after switching language (removed from recent apps), an then restart.

Now it will be difficult for users, if translations are bad.