Language Suport

[DoctorWho786]

Hi
I am building an app that caters to a multinational and multilingual client base. I was wondering if there was a way for the app to communicate with the WebView.

The App already senses the phones default language and shifts to that language. However, the WebView does not. I was wondering if there was a way that I could parse a message to the WebView. sort of like if I had code on the thingsboard platform that listened for a message from the app, received it and then updates the language accordingly.

Is something like this possible?

[ybeshkarov]

Hi,

The webview also reacts on the phone locale but not everything is translated.
Regarding the communication between webview and platform: yes, it's possible. it's how a dashboard works. You may search for openDashboardMessage to see how it's done.

[DoctorWho786]

cool, thanks

[DoctorWho786]

@ybeshkarov
I changed my phones language to Chinese and all of the app stuff changes automatically but the WebView does not.
However, if i go into my thingsboard cloud account and manually change the user's language to chinese, then the dashboard lables change.

I want this automatic.

At the bottom you can see that the app switches to Chinese by default, however the dashboard does not.
Note: Not all of the labels are meant to change based on language all of them are hard coded except for the access forbidden lable in the table. - Still in order to get this to change i had to manually change my user's language