Localization in Xamarin Image Editor (SfImageEditor)

18 May 20215 minutes to read

The image editor control supports localization. You can localize the contents of image editor by adding equivalent localized strings.

Change default language

Based on resource strings in the project, the contents are localized. By default, the image editor control is available in English.

You can localize image editor contents in the following two ways:

Using Resx file from PCL.
From platform-specific projects.

Using Resx file from PCL

You can localize the text from PCL by adding equivalent localized strings in the resource file. Add the required resx files with Build Action -> EmbeddedResource (File name should contains culture code) under the Resources folder.

E.g., For Japanese, filename should be Syncfusion.SfImageEditor.XForms.ja-JP.resx.

Initializes a new instance of the ResourceManager class that looks up resources with the specified root name in the given assembly.

C#
ImageEditorResourceManager.Manager = new ResourceManager(ResXPath, Assembly);

Here,

ResXPath => Full path of the resx file
Assembly => Application assembly (PCL)

The CurrentCulture must be set in the platform projects.

Convert the platform-specific format to a .NET format, and set it to Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture.

You can use the value set to this static property from our source to read the values in PCL project’s Syncfusion.SfImageEditor.XForms.ja-JP.resx files.

C#
public void SetLocale(CultureInfo culture)
    {
        Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = culture;
        Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = culture;
    }
    
    public CultureInfo GetCurrentCultureInfo()
    {
        var netLanguage = "en";
        var androidLocale = Java.Util.Locale.Default;
        netLanguage =                                     
        AndroidToLanguage(androidLocale.ToString().Replace("_", "-"));
            CultureInfo culture = null;
            try
            {
                culture = new CultureInfo(netLanguage);
            }
            catch
            {
                try
                {
                    var fallback = ToFallbackLanguage(new                
                                   PlatformCulture(netLanguage));
                    culture = new CultureInfo(fallback); 
                }
                catch
                {
                    culture = new CultureInfo("en");
                }
            }
        return culture;
    }

The following code snippet shows converting Japanese language to CultureInfo equivalent.

C#
var netLanguage = platCulture.LanguageCode; 

          case "ja":
                netLanguage = "ja-JP"; //equivalent to Japanese for this app
                break;

Change the language preference in device.

SfImageEditor

The following screenshot shows localizing the text to Japanese language.

SfImageEditor

Please refer the KB from this link.

You can download complete sample here.

Please find a different culture .resx file here.

From platform-specific projects

You can localize the text from different platforms by adding equivalent localized strings in resource file. For localizing text, configure it to each platform separately.