Be able to choose language other than the system one

[gpl34]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

I want to use Nextcloud Android app in another language than the default one.

Describe the solution you'd like

An option in the settings to switch to one of the supported Nextcloud Android languages. Even a hidden one. Or buried under ‘Advanced options’.

Additional context

In my case, I cannot swtich my Android device to the language I want to use: it's Esperanto and Esperanto is not possible as a system language on Android. And Nextcloud Android is fully translated in Esperanto...

[nextcloud-android-bot]

GitMate.io thinks possibly related issues are #3397 (Use Account Language), #340 (Choose sorting order), #3146 (Switch to modern system), #802 (Choose any folder on sdcard), and #3385 (Show system protocols).

[stonyz]

@nextcloud-android-bot It doesn't make sense.

[wonx]

I am also interested in this feature. Apparently, Nextcloud is not available in the language in which my phone is set, so it automatically loads in English. The problem is that I want my relatives to use that app to sync their files with their phones, but they do not speak English, and I cannot change the language. An option to manually change the language would really help, without the need to change the language in the whole phone.

This is a problem I found in other apps as well. Since most people are bilingual in more than one language, there should be a system-wide option to set a number of languages by preference, so if an app is not available in one language, it should try the next one.

[tobiasKaminsky]

@wonx
Which language is not translated?

Without verifying, I would have assumed that the "language" order in setting of Android should help and that English is only the last resort…

You can also help to translate the app to your language: https://www.transifex.com/nextcloud/nextcloud/android/
This is a better way than working around the real problem ;-)

[joshtrichards]

The way to do this may be by configuring the per-app language settings in Android:

https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/resources/app-languages#how-user

Unfortunately, it does still require an app to declare what languages it supports to the OS. I'm not sure how we do that currently, but we don't appear to do so based on a quick test.

[f1o1f]

this really needs to be addressed. It's very difficult to solve an issue, say with app settings, when I can't view the app in English without changing the entire phone's language. It doesn't help that the translation quality is often so-so