November 2014
Intermediate to advanced
624 pages
16h 56m
English
There are now hundreds of Android devices on the market worldwide. In this chapter, you will learn how to design and develop Android applications for foreign users and markets. This involves following design principles that make for easy internationalization, such as using alternative string resources for different languages and leveraging locale-aware classes for format-sensitive data such as date and time formats. Finally, we talk a bit about publishing applications in foreign countries.
Android users hail from many different parts of the world. They speak different languages, use different currencies, and format their dates in different ways—just to name a few ...