Making the snake game Spanish, English and German

First, we need to add some folders to our project- one for each new language. The text is classed as a resource and consequently needs to go in the res folder. We have already seen the res folder as it is this folder that also contains the drawable folder where we put all our graphics. Follow these steps to add Spanish support to the project.

Note

While the source files for this project are provided in the Chapter 15 folder they are just for reference. You need to go through the processes described next to achieve multilingual functionality.

Adding Spanish support

Follow the next steps to add the Spanish language.

1. Right-click on the res folder then select New | Android resource directory. In the Directory name field type values-es.
2. Now we need to add a file in which we can place all our Spanish translations.
3. Right click on res then select New | Android resource file and type strings.xml in the File name field. Type values-es in Directory name...