Android-Countries

Provides country codes in accordance with ISO-3166-1 and localized names for each country

Installation

• Create a new library project from this repository and reference it in your project

Usage

Custom country preference in your PreferenceActivity

Add the following code to your XML for the preferences. The class CountryPreference extends ListPreference and has the same appearance. It ignores the attributes android:entries, android:entryValues, android:defaultValue and android:summary because it comes with its own implementation for those.

Be sure to set android:key to the preference key that you want to store the country code in. For android:title, provide a value from your string resources, for example, which will be used as the preference's caption.

<im.delight.android.countries.CountryPreference
	android:key="country"
	android:title="..."
	android:enabled="true"
	android:selectable="true" />

Retrieving a list of all supported short codes

String[] countryCodes = CountryList.getMachineReadable(context);
// countryCodes now contains "CHN", "IND", "USA", "IDN", "BRA" etc.

Retrieving a list of all supported full names

String[] countryNames = CountryList.getHumanReadable(context);
// countryNames now contains "China", "India", "United States", "Indonesia", "Brazil" etc. (depending on the user's locale)

Getting a country's full name by its short code

String localizedName = Country.getNameByIso3Code(context, "ESP");
// localizedName now contains "Spain" or "España" (etc.) depending on the user's locale

Adding new countries

1. Create a new entry at the end of the string array countries_list_machine in res/values/short_codes.xml
2. Add the full name of the country (at least for English) to our platform for managed translations
3. Create a new entry at the end of the string array countries_list_human in res/values/full_names.xml, referencing the new country_xxx resource that has just been submitted in the step before

Translating country names

If you want to translate existing country names, please do so on our platform for managed translations.

License

Copyright (c) delight.im <[email protected]>

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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