Chapter 15
A Touch of Locale
In This Chapter
• Customizing your app by region and language
• Translating content on the fly using Google’s translation servers
• Preparing for critical changes in the Activity life cycle
• Working with multi-touch
Only in the last decade have users been able to buy cheap, portable devices that will work in almost any country in the world. Now, not only can you buy mobile Android phones that will operate worldwide, but you can write apps that will run on any Android phone, anywhere.
In this chapter, you learn how to localize your app by language and region. Additionally, you learn how to cope with smaller changes in orientation, like switching between landscape and portrait mode. Finally, you sample some of the possibilities ...
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