How to use tools:locale for strings.xml files?

Question

Background

Lint has a relatively new feature, so that it will warn us about missing translation only for languages that we choose, but i don't get how to use it.

The problem

for some reason, Lint still warns me about languages that i don't intend on translating yet.

What i've tried

for example, currently i want to only have 2 languages : english ("en") and hebrew (which is sadly both "iw" and "he" ) .

so i have strings files in the folders :

• values (for english)
• "values-he" and "values-iw" (for hebrew) .

i've tried putting the new attribute in the english file as such :

<resources xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools" tools:locale="en,iw,he">
...

The question

what is the right way to do it?

Answer 1

Looking here it seems that it's to be used into resource files to indicate the default language. So you can specify only one locale code.

should correspond to a language

Moreover it seems to be used only to disable spell-checker

Answer 2

If you read the article:

This lets you tell the tools which language you're using in your base values folder. For strings in for example values-de or values-en it's obvious, but not in the base "values" folder

It need only to know what is the language in the default "values" folder (the folder without any attribute).

<resources xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools" tools:locale="en">

Answer 3

You are already in right direction. Just need some modification. Like this manner:

<resources xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools" tools:locale="es">

Now we know that the language used for strings in the default values folder is Spanish rather than English. Used by: Lint, Studio (to disable spell checking in non-English resource files)

Reference Link: Go to here tools:locale

Thanks.