expo-localization
Advanced tools
The expo-localization package provides utilities for determining the locale, language, and region settings of a user's device. It is useful for internationalizing and localizing applications to provide a more personalized user experience.
Get current locale
This feature allows you to get the current locale of the user's device. The locale is a string that represents the language and region settings, such as 'en-US' for English (United States).
import * as Localization from 'expo-localization';
console.log(Localization.locale);Get preferred languages
This feature provides an array of preferred languages set on the user's device. This can be useful for applications that support multiple languages and want to prioritize content based on user preferences.
import * as Localization from 'expo-localization';
console.log(Localization.locales);Get timezone
This feature allows you to get the current timezone of the user's device. The timezone is a string that represents the time zone identifier, such as 'America/Los_Angeles'.
import * as Localization from 'expo-localization';
console.log(Localization.timezone);Get country
This feature provides the country code of the user's device, such as 'US' for the United States. This can be useful for region-specific content or services.
import * as Localization from 'expo-localization';
console.log(Localization.country);The react-native-localize package provides similar functionalities for determining the locale, language, and region settings of a user's device. It offers more comprehensive support for React Native applications and includes additional features like currency and calendar type detection.
The i18next package is a powerful internationalization framework for JavaScript applications. While it does not directly provide device locale information, it integrates well with localization packages to manage translations and language switching in applications.
The globalize package is a comprehensive library for internationalization and localization in JavaScript. It provides functionalities for formatting numbers, dates, and strings based on locale settings. It can be used in conjunction with device locale detection packages to provide a complete localization solution.
Provides an interface for native user localization information.
For managed managed Expo projects, please follow the installation instructions in the API documentation for the latest stable release.
For bare React Native projects, you must ensure that you have installed and configured the react-native-unimodules package before continuing.
expo install expo-localization
Run npx pod-install after installing the npm package.
No additional set up necessary.
Contributions are very welcome! Please refer to guidelines described in the contributing guide.
FAQs
Provides an interface for native user localization information.
The npm package expo-localization receives a total of 156,491 weekly downloads. As such, expo-localization popularity was classified as popular.
We found that expo-localization demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 29 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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